Agree that it would be ideal to have a single user directory but unfortunately the different OS's have different requirements and conventions and they also vary somewhat between various Linux distributions. It would not be too hard to create a Linux bash script that could pack all the files on one computer into a zip with a corresponding unpack on another Linux machine, but Linux to Windows is likely to be more complex with the registry involved and I have no idea how to do it on a mac but as the Mac OS has its origin in Linux it is likely a shell script from Linux could be adapted.
A one off is no problem, but maintaining it as the various OS's change their requirements creates an ongoing task. I avoid it totally as I keep complete backups of my home directory on an NAS, another laptop and an online storage as well as periodically an offsite USB . David On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 17:37 -0500, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > On 12/16/2022 3:00 PM, David Cousens wrote: > > The user preference data is stored in the locations defined as > > USER_CONFIG_HOME > > in the following wiki page. The page also details all of the places that > > data > > about GnuCash configuration and what type of data is stored in those > > specific > > locations is stored on the 3 operating systems. > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations > > There are a set of links to diagrammatic forms of this information on the 3 > > operating systems about a third of the way down the page. It is possible > > that > > more informaton has been added since I constructed those a couple of years > > ago > > as they resulted from my efforts to get the information in that page into a > > more > > easily digestible form. > > The location of the GnuCash data file containing the sets of books can be > > anywhere the user chooses in their home directoty/folder. > > Very useful if you want to know which specific one does what. > > But the "picture" wanted for backing up (or moving to a different > machine) is different *IF* there exists one or two directories that > contain all of them. > > To give an example from another (unrelated) application: Take the > browser FireFox. In THIS case(in Windows) all will be within a directory > named Mozilla in the appdata directory. So if you were moving to a new > computer you could just replace that directory in the new computer > (created when you installed/opened first time FireFox) with the one form > your old computer. Or for your back-ups, that is the directory you want > to copy. So ...... > > Is there one directory (or a small set of directories) that contain all > that is needed for gnucash? And nothing else. THAT is the "view" wanted > for both back-up and moving to another computer. And if there is not a > small subset, if they are "scattered", then that perhaps should be fixed. > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
