I think I’ve developed a reasonable hand-over method, thanks to members of the Gnucash Users.
I’m sending this partly as a record for me of what I’ve done, and partly in case anyone else has a similar succession problem. Let’s say I have two books - BookA.gnucash and BookB.gnucash. I did the following: 1. Tidy up the existing saved reports, prefixing the report names with BookA or BookB as appropriate. 2, Close gnucash and make a backup copy of saved-reports-2.8 - say saved-reports-2.8_allbooks. 3. Open BookA in gnucash, and delete all saved reports whose names don’t start with BookA. Quit gnucash. 4. Click on saved-reports-2.8 and rename it saved-reports-2.8_BookA. 5. Make a copy of saved-reports-2.8_allbooks, and rename it saved-reports-2.8 6. Repeat 3, 4 and 5 for BookB. 7. Copy BookA.gnucash and saved-reports-2.8_BookA to Book A’s new keeper. 8. Repeat 7 for Book B. 9. BookA’s new keeper should copy BookA.gnucash to ~/Documents/gnucash (or wherever) and copy saved-reports-2.8_BookA to the appropriate directory for his OS. If it’s a new installation, he can just rename it saved-reports-2.8, otherwise he should copy and paste the contents of saved-reports-2.8_BookA on to the end of the existing saved-reports-2.8 file after backing up the latter by copying it to (e.g.) saved-reports-2.8_local so that he can revert easily later. 10. BookB’s new keeper likewise. You’ll note that I decided to use GNC to delete the reports I didn’t want rather than using my original idea of creating a new saved-reports file by copying-and-pasting code from the old one. I’ve tested this procedure using my wife’s Windows 10 laptop and all appears well. I await a report back from a prospective new keeper who has a Mac laptop. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
