[GNC] Transferring Gnu Cash Data to New Computer

[R Losey]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:21 AM Gary Slade <gslade at sullygroup.com> wrote:

> I need to transfer Gnu Cash data from my old Mac to my new Mac. How do I
> locate the data?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary Slade
> Pioneer, CA
>
>
Gary - the financial transactions are kept in one file; generally called
<something>.gnucash. Where this is stored is kind of up to you when you
started GnuCash back when. I hope you know where that file is stored. One
way to find it is to open the old GnuCash and then under File, choose "Save
As" - it will open in the same directory as your current file is stored.
Worst case, you can do a search for  files ending with ".gnucash".

The reports and other settings are stored in the user data and user config
directories; these are listed in Gnucash -> About. I am using the default
location; on my Sonoma iMac, they are in "$HOME/Library/Application
Support/Gnucash"

You will certainly want the financial transactions; if you've customized
Gnucash with reports, etc, you'll want the configuration data.

You should know where your financial data file is, because you ARE backing
it up, right?


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