[GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

[Gyle McCollam]

Even if you can copy this to another computer (an exact copy), reports and all, you will have to make all your entries on both computers to keep them in sync.  It would be better to save everything in a location that you can access from each computer.  GnuCash will tell you if the file is in use on the other computer.


Thank You,
Gyle McCollam

Gyle McCollam

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 2:50 PM
To: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] How to copy a GnuCash 'installation'?

At Fri, 6 May 2022 18:58:13 +0100 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

>
> If one wants to copy a GnuCash 'installation' from one place to
> another, in particular from one computer to another what needs to be
> copied?  I'm really only interested in copying from one Linux system
> to another, both running the same GnuCash version.
>
> Obviously one needs to copy:-
>
>     The GnuCash 'data' file, either XML or sql
>
>     Any log files (though not strictly necessary I guess)
>
> However there are other files one needs to copy if you want reports
> and screen layout and things like that to be the same.  Is this
> documented anywhere?

Don't know if it is documented anywhere...

Config files somewhere in $HOME: .gnucashrc or under .local/...  I believe
this is where reports are saved (report params, used to generate the reports).



>
> I'm particularly interested in copying reports across as I run GnuCash
> on both my desktop machine and my laptop.  Just copying the GnuCash
> data file means that I get the same accounts on both systems but not
> reports and connected files ('experimental' CSS for reports, that sort
> of thing).
>

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