[GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 6 september 2022 06:13:45 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded.
> 
They are not :)

> It might be worth investigating the Windows equivalent of a symbolic link.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 9/5/22 8:22 PM, butterandsalt at gmail.com wrote:
> > In the C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc directory, in the gnucash
> > subdirectory, where there is an "enviroment" file, I added an
> > "environment.local" file with the following content:
> > 
> > GNC_DATA_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash
> > 
> > I then opened up gnucash, but the saved reports are still not pointing to
> > that location.

The contents of that file should be

[Variables]
GNC_DATA_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash

You were probably only missing the "Variables" group header.
A few suggestions however:
1. I presume your data file is also in c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash ?
In that case it would be better to make a subdirectory for the gnucash meta data (it can 
simply be c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash\data) and point GNC_DATA_HOME to that. So the 
line in environment.local would become
GNC_DATA_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash\data

2. Besides GNC_DATA_HOME there is also directory GNC_CONFIG_HOME. On Windows this 
special variable typically points to the same location. So if you want to relocate the former, 
you probably also want to relocate the latter. For that add a second line in environment.local 
with the following 
GNC_CONFIG_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash\data


Regards,

Geert

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