[GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Essentially what I did, except in reverse and simpler:
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>  $ cp -a ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash ~/.local/share/gnucash
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> As you say, this migrated my reports just fine.
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> However, the copied GCM files don’t give the paths to the previously
> opened books/files, so GC didn’t know where to find them.
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I am not sure why your previously opened files were not preserved. I don't
believe that happened to me. Also note my technique was not a COPY of the
data, but a symlink, so effectively now I have just one set of preferences
stored, not an independent copy. (I had to move the old data first to give
the OS an empty spot for the symlink.)

 $ mv ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash.orig

 $ ln -s ~/.local/share/gnucash ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash