Info about file locations is available at 
https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html 
<https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-migrate-settings.html>.

David T.


> On Sep 29, 2018, at 7:54 PM, <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> 
> <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> wrote:
> 
> Hello David, tnx for the confirmation.  It was only that I had another 
> GNUCash installed on another machine, totally separate that I concluded that 
> was probably the issue.   It was also that when changing a report 
> configuration, it never asked to save the file, as it does when one changes a 
> transaction.  I thought then it must be elsewhere and save automatically.
> 
> Where are the configs saved; is it amongst the User files of windows?
> 
> I would have thought that Configs were fundamental to each work book and 
> wonder why that was never a default?
> 
> Thank you for being prompt with the reply.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> 
> Sent: 29 September 2018 14:08
> To: davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz
> Cc: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>; Gnucash Users 
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
> 
> This is a known issue with how GnuCash handles saved reports, and has been 
> around a long time. Your only recoourse is to create separate user logins at 
> the operating system, and log in to each user account when you wish to access 
> a particular GnuCash book and its reports.
> 
> David T.
> 
>> On Sep 29, 2018, at 6:28 PM, <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> 
>> <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> wrote:
>> 
>> The saved reports are say for a year ending, for "Profit and Loss" in one 
>> organisation through "Reports > Income & Expense > Profit & Loss" and then 
>> set the parameters.   Then save the report configuration Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S  . 
>>  The resulting Config is in path "Reports > Saved Report Configurations" 
>> which obviously is OK for one organisation, but the naming and other 
>> settings is not any use for the other organisation, but shows in the list 
>> even though a different GNUCash file has been opened.
>> 
>> How can I store reports for the org that I am working on.  As you say it 
>> seems though report config is per user and not per book.  Will look at the 
>> "Close Book" function anyway to see what it does.
>> 
>> Tnx
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> DAvid
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnucash-user 
>> <gnucash-user-bounces+davidbrown.rdps=photos.bozeat....@gnucash.org> 
>> On Behalf Of Adrien Monteleone
>> Sent: 29 September 2018 11:12
>> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Reports with previous year in different Accounts
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean by ’saved reports’.
>> 
>> There is a place to save report configurations. That is per user, not per 
>> book as far as I’m aware.
>> 
>> If you want to run a report, say an Income Statement or P&L for each year 
>> and store the result, then run the report, and ‘print to file’ or use the 
>> Export to pdf function. You can store a copy of each report with the 
>> respective book if you like.
>> 
>> If you aren’t using the ‘close books’ function, you can run reports at any 
>> time for any period, no need to ’save’ them unless you really want to.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>> 
>>> On Sep 29, 2018, at 4:25 AM, <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> 
>>> <davidbrown.r...@photos.bozeat.biz> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sat 29 September
>>> 
>>> I have set up two Accounts of different organisations, both accessed 
>>> from the same Programme location at "C:\Program Files 
>>> (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash.exe" ...
>>> The files themselves are stored in different locations in their respective 
>>> folder relating to that organisation.
>>> 
>>> However I notice that when reports are Saved for one master file, they also 
>>> appear in the list of the other file.  They are saved in the Application 
>>> location rather than being saved separately "attached" to each organisation 
>>> file.  I have installed a GNU.exe on a separate laptop and obviously that 
>>> doesn't happen.
>>> 
>>> It seems a bit odd to have reports of one set of accounts, being viewed in 
>>> the list of another?
>>> 
>>> Is there a specific way of dealing with this or are all bundled together by 
>>> default?  The list of saved reports from year to year just gets longer.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
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