Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread David Cousens
Michael, Sorry my bad on the BSD Unix as the base for Macs OS My NAS does periodic full backups and daily incrementals so the slowly changing stuff doesn't get backed up all that often. My laptop is also synced to my desktop before and after I take it away from home which provides one of the addit

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/16/2022 8:23 PM, David Cousens wrote: 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 bas

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread David Cousens
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

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
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 stor

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread David Cousens
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.g

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-16 Thread R Losey
Agreed... I believe the data is somewhere in the documentation, but I hadn't really realized that until I did the new installations. On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:26 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 12/14/2022 6:57 PM, R Losey wrote: > > The data file (files) are

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-15 Thread Murugan Muruganandam
nny Novack Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] New PC Dec 15, 2022 09:26:28 Michael or Penny Novack : > It would perhaps be a good idea to explain WHERE that other user data > is stored so that users so gnucash can include that in their gnucash > back-ups (and so in moves to

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-15 Thread Mark Penner via gnucash-user
Dec 15, 2022 09:26:28 Michael or Penny Novack : It would perhaps be a good idea to explain WHERE that other user data is stored so that users so gnucash can include that in their gnucash back-ups (and so in moves to a different computer). I don't mean just on the list, but also in the docu

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-15 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
On 12/14/2022 6:57 PM, R Losey wrote: The data file (files) are the key thing. I recently updated both my iMac (new machine) and my Linux box (disk wipe and re-install). The data files I used are stored on my home NAS, so that all computers can see the file. I did notice that I lost the reports,

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread R Losey
The data file (files) are the key thing. I recently updated both my iMac (new machine) and my Linux box (disk wipe and re-install). The data files I used are stored on my home NAS, so that all computers can see the file. I did notice that I lost the reports, but since I didn't have many of them, I

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread R Losey
New versions generally come out once a quarter. On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 3:54 PM Deborah Millington wrote: > Hello David > > I am on GnuCash version 2.6.3 on my old machine ... and to be honest had no > idea that there were any other versions available. I'm guessing that that > will be likely to

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread Deborah Millington
Hello David Thanks for your reply, and for the advice which is much appreciated. Apologies for not providing the right information upfront. I'm afraid I don't tend to use this kind of mailing list format and it all feels a bit unfamiliar, so I'm probably not thinking through what I need to say (

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread David H
Deborah, You might want to read this post from Adrien about upgrading from an older version to the latest version - https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-September/093209.html Cheers David H. On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 06:45, David H wrote: > Hi Deborah and welcome to Gnucash. >

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread David H
Hi Deborah and welcome to Gnucash. When posting, always include your OS and current version of Gnucash as it matters and we don't want to be making too many assumptions and also what your new pc OS is. For config file Locations - read (and bookmark) the wiki - https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configu

Re: [GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread Stephen M. Butler
I can help with (b)  and (c). On 12/14/22 11:51, Deborah Millington wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a bit of help please. I've used GnuCash for many years on a laptop which is now struggling to keep going. I've got a newer (second hand) laptop and need to do a one off transfer of my GnuCash file

[GNC] New PC

2022-12-14 Thread Deborah Millington
Hello, I'm looking for a bit of help please. I've used GnuCash for many years on a laptop which is now struggling to keep going. I've got a newer (second hand) laptop and need to do a one off transfer of my GnuCash files to it so I can use it instead in future. I'm familiar with backing up my fi