I agree with Michael here. I can’t imagine the nightmare of trying to restore an entire system or migrate it to another physical machine and have to contend with dozens of different restore procedures, one for each application based on what those developers thought best.
I’d much rather handle this with a single method for the entire system. Backup, restoration and migration is not a proper function to handle on a per-app basis. This is always something that should be done by the user according to their own needs and preferences. There are many applications dedicated to this very task, some come with operating systems as ’sane defaults’ and others are available if a user finds those ’sane defaults’ to not meet their needs. In a worst case, one can always just copy/move files manually. (again, there are multiple methods available here, depending on need and preference) Such a request (to have the particular app handle this) strikes me as coming from the perspective that the user thinks the data and settings are contained within the app itself somehow. I’m not sure where this idea originates, but I’ve come across it so many times. (My parents used to think their documents were actually, literally, stored IN ‘MS Word’. It took me many months to get them to comprehend otherwise.) The short answer to the original post is simply - make a backup (using the backup procedure included in Win10) of the original system, then restore that backup on the new system. If you just want to move GnuCash, that backup/restore tool allows you to choose what you want to include so only include the GnuCash relevant files. Windows has had a backup and migration assistant included for at least a decade now. The desired tool already exists. (I used it a few months ago to copy a user profile to 5 different machines - data, preferences and all) Regards, Adrien > On Jul 13, 2018, at 7:46 AM, Mike or Penny Novack > <stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > > On 7/13/2018 8:20 AM, Stan Brown wrote: >> I think there's a mechanism for entering that as a request for the product, >> and I think it would be a great idea. Programs in general ought to make it >> easier not just to move their settings but to back them up. >> >> P.S. I'm not really a programmer any more, but I still keep my hand in with >> various forms of scripting, mainly AWK and batch files. One day I'll learn >> Windows PowerShell, maybe. >> > Absolutely not. Not on a program by program, application by application basis. > > Look, if on computer there is a data area ... users/user-name/..... and if > THIS (entire directory) is copied to back-up then ALL of that user's data has > been backed up in one operation. > > SPACE (cheap these days) is the only good reason to do incremental back-ups. > But if this method is used, should be neither the responsibility of programs > nor manual actions by the user, but an automated back-up system designed for > the purpose << say runs every night and makes a (new) back-up of every file > that has changed since the day before >> > > Michael D Novack > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
