Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 14:27:37 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: > On 27/10/2018 09:34, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Agreed. And on several occasions I have been thinking about adjusting the > > gnucash code and its Windows installer to make this universally possible. > > It never really

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 31 oktober 2018 14:20:02 CET schreef Wm via gnucash-user: > On 26/10/2018 21:36, Paul Kinzelman wrote: > > Not ideal of course, but if you install GC on all the computers you want > > to run on, you could just put the data on the flash drive and plug it in > > to whatever computer you

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 27/10/2018 13:46, Kim Wood wrote: Here is another suggestion that works for me. I use the most recent PortableApps build, and simply delete the \PortableApps\GnuCashPortable\App\gnucash directory, and replace it with my more recent c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash directory. Works fine for

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 27/10/2018 09:34, Geert Janssens wrote: Agreed. And on several occasions I have been thinking about adjusting the gnucash code and its Windows installer to make this universally possible. It never really happened so far due to lack of time and other priorities. the .gnucash folder model

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 26/10/2018 21:36, Paul Kinzelman wrote: Not ideal of course, but if you install GC on all the computers you want to run on, you could just put the data on the flash drive and plug it in to whatever computer you want and have already installed GC and then start GC. Wrong! the clever people

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-11-01 Thread Wm via gnucash-user
On 26/10/2018 21:27, aeneas wrote: Very nice reply! It looks like knowing about GNC_DATA_HOME goes a long way toward solving my problem. From what I can see I'm not using AQBANKING. Also, I'd speculate that my scheme may not be be completely fool-proof. I did search the registry for

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-27 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 22:27:51 CEST schreef aeneas: > Very nice reply! > > It looks like knowing about GNC_DATA_HOME goes a long way toward solving my > problem. From what I can see I'm not using AQBANKING. Also, I'd speculate > that my scheme may not be be completely fool-proof. I did

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-26 Thread Paul Kinzelman
Not ideal of course, but if you install GC on all the computers you want to run on, you could just put the data on the flash drive and plug it in to whatever computer you want and have already installed GC and then start GC. On 10/26/2018 2:27 PM, aeneas wrote: Very nice reply! It looks like

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-26 Thread aeneas
Very nice reply! It looks like knowing about GNC_DATA_HOME goes a long way toward solving my problem. From what I can see I'm not using AQBANKING. Also, I'd speculate that my scheme may not be be completely fool-proof. I did search the registry for "gnucash" and found some KEYS. This causes

Re: [GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-26 Thread Geert Janssens
Op vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 18:52:33 CEST schreef aeneas: > One of the nice things about software designed to run on multiple platforms > is that it tends to avoid the use of platform specific features. I've had > very good success setting up various open source packages to run on Windows > in a

[GNC] How to run GNUcash in portable fashion?

2018-10-26 Thread aeneas
One of the nice things about software designed to run on multiple platforms is that it tends to avoid the use of platform specific features. I've had very good success setting up various open source packages to run on Windows in a portable fashion. While the Portable Apps