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

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Chris

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User_Configuration_Files

David Cousens

On Fri, 2022-05-06 at 18:58 +0100, Chris Green 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?
> 
> 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).
>