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 stored on the 3 operating systems.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations
There are a set of links to diagrammatic forms of this information on the 3
operating systems about a third of the way down the page. It is possible that
more informaton has been added since I constructed those a couple of years ago
as they resulted from my efforts to get the information in that page into a more
easily digestible form.
The location of the GnuCash data file containing the sets of books can be
anywhere the user chooses in their home directoty/folder.
Very useful if you want to know which specific one does what.
But the "picture" wanted for backing up (or moving to a different
machine) is different *IF* there exists one or two directories that
contain all of them.
To give an example from another (unrelated) application: Take the
browser FireFox. In THIS case(in Windows) all will be within a directory
named Mozilla in the appdata directory. So if you were moving to a new
computer you could just replace that directory in the new computer
(created when you installed/opened first time FireFox) with the one form
your old computer. Or for your back-ups, that is the directory you want
to copy. So ......
Is there one directory (or a small set of directories) that contain all
that is needed for gnucash? And nothing else. THAT is the "view" wanted
for both back-up and moving to another computer. And if there is not a
small subset, if they are "scattered", then that perhaps should be fixed.
Michael D Novack
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