Several option: 1. If you remember where you stored your gnucash data file on the old computer, use your system's file manager to copy it to the new computer (either via a network share, cloud drive or usb stick. Then on the new computer, start gnucash and use File->Open to locate your gnucash data file.
2. If you don't remember where you stored it, open gnucash on your old computer and select save as... From there you can either detect where you stored your gnucash data file originally, or simply save a copy somewhere you can find it later. The take step one above to complete the migration. Note that besides your data file there are a few files that are managed by gnucash directly which you also might want to copy over. They have for example your saved reports and such. Under Windows these are stored under %APPDATA%\gnucash Regards, Geert Op vrijdag 11 augustus 2023 16:00:35 CEST schreef Shevach Pepper: > I’m sure this is really simple but I’m not successful. > > I installed gnucash on new computer but I can’t find an option to > import all my old accounts from old computer. I’m sure this has been > asked before, but I can’t find any instructions on how to do it. > > On my old computer in the AppData>Roaming>GnuCash>books folder I found > a file with end in gnucash.gcm. Can I just copy that file and put into > the new computer in the same place and I’ll get back old of the old > info? > > Tried that but it didn’t work. > > Can someone help me and tell me what to do? > > Thank you very much > > > > Sent from [1]Mail for Windows > > References > > 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
