On 2026-07-09 08:49, Roger Oliver wrote: > Windows 11, Gnucash version 4.1 > > We would like up upgrade from version 4.1 to 4.16 and eventually to 5.16. > It occurred to me that we may lose saved reports and the settings for > invoices including the logo that appears on the invoices and paid receipts. > Will they automatically transfer over? If not, is there a way to recover > them so we don't have to start from scratch?
Hello, Roger. Thank you for mentioning your operating system; that makes it easier to answer your question with specifics. Your reports, accelerator keys, and the geometry of the registers are in %APPDATA%\GnuCash. These will not be changed or removed by your upgrade to 4.14. (They were not changed when I upgraded from a 3.x version to 4.14.) However, if you want to remove all possible doubt you can make a backup copy of that folder. (You should probably be backing it up anyway, as part of your regular backup of your computer.) Your preferences are in the Windows System Registry, specifically in HKCU\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash, and I'm 95% sure that settings are not changed by an upgrade. If you want to remove all possible doubt, you can back them up as follows: 1. run the Windows program regedit 2. paste into the location bar just under the menu, and press Enter 3. right-click on GSettings and select Export I notice you said "we". Both the folder and the registry key are per-user locations, meaning that each user login that runs GnuCash on your computer has its own copy of these. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
