Thanks for the feedback, David. While I was waiting for replies, I looked into VirtualBox. It's a lot more polished and easier to use than the last time I used it, several years ago. I was worried about how to run Windows in a guest machine, since I have just the one product key in my host machine, but this very good video showed me how I could install a Windows 10 guest OS without a product key:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XFa_2cKzuk> So I went ahead and installed 4.13 and have started creating the chart of accounts. One question: am I missing something, or are the word/icon buttons for Save-Close-Duplicate-Delete and so on completely gone from 4.13? Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-20 17:33, David Carlson wrote: > As an experienced user of VirtualBox, I would say that your use case is > exactly what VirtualBox is best for, ie temporary computer needs. The > main requirement is having enough RAM and cpu's to share with your other > programs. > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 3:21 PM Stan Brown (using GC 2.6.19) > <[email protected] <mailto:stan%[email protected]>> wrote: > > I apologize for asking a question that must have been asked before, but > I couldn't turn up answers by googling or in the archives. > > Can GC 4.13 coexist on the same Windows 10 machine with GC 2.6.19? They > would be accessing separate data files in separate folders, and would > not be executing simultaneously, but I worry about preferences, reports, > most-recently-used file lists, and anything else that might get stored > in the System Registry or a fixed location. > > It might be helpful to explain my use case. > > I'm on the board of a small nonprofit. Our longtime volunteer bookkeeper > is bowing out, and the treasurer who will have to take over the > bookkeeping doesn't have experience with any accounting software. We > have an average of just a couple of dozen transactions a month, and the > reports we need are just the standard income statement and balance > sheet, plus transaction reports for the Income:Donors and > Expenses:Musician Fees accounts. There's no need for the software to > print checks or 1099 tax forms (we must file one 1099 for each > non-employee we make payments to), though that would be a nice plus. > I want to put together a chart of accounts and the transactions for > the year to date in GC 4.13. If the treasurer feels comfortable with > entering transactions and pulling reports, I will install everything for > the nonprofit to her computer. All of that will be in the 4.13 and only > that version. > But I'm keeping my own books on my computer, and they're in GC > 2.6.19 and only 2.6.19 for now. (I know it's necessary to upgrade in > phases and I'm not ready to do that now.) > > I suppose I could install a virtual machine for running 4.13, but that > seems like a lot of work for a short-term need. Another possibility is > the portable 4.13 install at > <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable > <https://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable>> > but I remember some discussion in this list about some reasons not to > use that. > > Can I install 4.13 on my current machine without it and 2.6.19 > interfering with each other, provide that they don't run simultaneously > or use the same saved reports? > > -- > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com <https://BrownMath.com> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
