On 12/9/2019 1:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
The easiest way to get the right file may be to open gnucash on the old machine and use File > Save As to save it to a USB stick or similar. Then you can copy it to a suitable folder on the new machine and use File Open in gnucash to open it.
That might be a good way to proceed if the only data you were moving to the different/new computer was your gnucash books. But in a situation like this, migrating to a new computer, you are USUALLY wanting to move over all your user data (all your documents, for example). Not doing this one at a time.
The questions about OS is most relevant when will be different from the old machine. If you are migrating between machines using the same OS and you choose the same name for your log in (your user account) as on the old machine, data migration is easy. You can just copy over your entire user directory (aka "file folder"). But if a different OS what things go where might not be the same.
HOWEVER, even if the same, you would not simply be able to click on the object (the file) because on the new machine you will not (yet) have created associations between object types (as identified by file extensions) and the application you want to use when you select that object. That you in general have to do this whenever beginning with a new machine might be less than obvious to users of a MS OS (any version of Windows) because MS is likely to have provided default associations to THEIR proprietary applications. Thus .docx might be associated to MS Word "out of the box" or .html to Edge << that we need to set/reset associations is obvious to those of us who use say LibreOffice or FireFox etc. instead of MS products >>
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