It is not quite that simple, hence my recommendation for Julie to get
very familiar with the Wiki pages concerning Backups and Configuration
Locations. (everyone should be familiar with these) I didn't have time
during my last reply to look them up, but here are those direct links:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
Specific to Saved Report Configurations, those are stored in a location
known as GNC_DATA_HOME.
For a 'pristine' (self-compiled or 'repository') version of GnuCash on
Linux, that location is:
~/.local/share/gnucash
For a flatpak installation:
~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
There are other important files there one might want to preserve or copy
over to an additional installation.
For a list, see this bookmark on the Configuration Locations wiki page:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#Files
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Copying just the book file won't get you any of that stuff.
Since those files live in the user's home directory, it is likely they
were left behind when the flatpak was uninstalled. All that needs to be
done is to re-install the flatpak version and open it instead and the
Saved Reports should now be accessible again.
Note, the .desktop launcher file for flatpak lives in a different place
and has a different Exec command. If Julie edited the .desktop file for
the 'pristine' version, that edit will need to be copied over to the
flatpak version of the file, being sure to *only add* the WEBKIT
workaround to the Exec line, leaving the rest as-is. (or else it might
not launch correctly, at all, or launch the wrong version if the repo
version remains installed)
Regards,
Adrien
On 10/23/26 04:33, Geoff Jankowski via gnucash-user wrote:
Julie, just in case the flatpack does not find your old files, it sounded like
you have an identical copy on your portable. If so you can move the gnucash
current file (you may have named it differently) from the portable to the other
machine. If they are networked it is even easier.
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