Re: Backup help

2017-09-15 Thread Roger Oliver
Thanks. I'll try that. Everything worked as advertised on a simple USB drive so it may be a Windows issue or power on the old Windows 7 machine. On Sep 15, 2017 7:29 PM, "Art" wrote: > I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus > formatted to

Re: Backup help

2017-09-15 Thread Roger Oliver
Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer in case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was restored from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at the school dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with

Re: Backup help

2017-09-15 Thread Art via gnucash-user
I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB). Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data was likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the second

Re: Backup help

2017-09-15 Thread Art via gnucash-user
What are the OSes on the source and target computers?What is the external hard disk filesystem and how do you know it's compatible with both computers? I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of copying the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from

Re: Cannot open GnuCash after upgrading to HighSierra

2017-09-15 Thread Carolyn Blaauw
John, Thankyou so much for this. i have just done and it worked! You have explained it so clearly that I could do it! regards Carolyn On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 at 22:12 John Ralls wrote: > The simple work-around is to copy /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib to >

save changes made in style sheets

2017-09-15 Thread pp
Hey, I have trouble changing changes made in style sheets for reports or creating new ones. I can make changes or create new style sheets and they show in reports when I reload those but all is lost once I close and reopen the program. I'm using GnuCash 2.6.17 on a windows machine. I found

Re: GnuCash on ArchLinux

2017-09-15 Thread alarin
I have installed all the other programs with just this one command - sudo pacman -S xxx and seems like you are telling me that everything is fine with gnucash :) It even works on my Android tablet with no problem, but I find is easier to work with real keyboard. Is it not possible to fix it so

Re: Backup database

2017-09-15 Thread Derek Atkins
The same way you would back up any other file to the cloud or a detachable USB memory or hard drive. How would you e.g. back up a Word document? The same process applies to your GnuCash data file. -derek On Fri, September 15, 2017 4:06 pm, rmom...@gmail.com wrote: > How do you back up a

Backup database

2017-09-15 Thread rmomxtx
How do you back up a GnuCash database to the cloud or to a detachable USB memory or hard drive? Thanks, Roger ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user - Please remember to CC this