On 24/02/2019 03:12, David Cousens wrote:
Wm
You could have a startup script which copied a common user config file for
GnuCash from a backup or other central location to each users home directory
and then copied it back on exit.
On Linux the files would be those in the directories:
/home/<user>/.local/share/gnucash (all user data)
/home/<user>/.config/gnucash (gnucash config data)
/home/<user>/.local/share/gtk-3.0 (gtk data)
/home/<user>/.config/gtk-3.0 (gtk config)
On Windows they should be in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\GnuCash or
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\gtk-3.0
OR
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\gtk-3.0
Don't know enough about Windoze anymore to know which set is most likely to
be used but this link has an explanation
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/appdata-roaming-vs-local/
If you only wanted to back up the reports not just all user data, you could
just backup the
saved-reports-<x>.<y> from the requisite directories and just restore that
file from a backup or other central copy stored with the main book file.
It is a lot more complicated than you think.
Let me open this part of the discussion by saying:
Does gnc know where it took stuff from and placed it when 3.x was run
for the first time?
We know this was a one way change but were the from and to locations
known about and recorded?
I think they weren't all known about and recorded and gnc has
contributed to actual data loss. <-- not something I ever wanted to say
as this was warned about and avoidable. The warnings were ignored.
--
Wm
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