Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yes, sorry. Geert set me straight. (and offered pointers for you to get it to work) Regards, Adrien On 9/6/22 8:11 AM, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: Well, obviously it is NOT "hard coded" cause I've been using my dropbox box location on my Windows desktop for saved reports for years on both

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-06 Thread Adrien Monteleone
On 9/6/22 7:37 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Op dinsdag 6 september 2022 06:13:45 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded. They are not :) Awesome, good to know, thanks! Regards, Adrien ___ gnucash-user

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-06 Thread butterandsalt
"Subject: Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded." Well, obviously it is NOT "hard coded" cause I've been using my dropbox box location on my Windows desktop for saved reports for years on both of my laptops, and it sti

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-06 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 6 september 2022 06:13:45 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone: > I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded. > They are not :) > It might be worth investigating the Windows equivalent of a symbolic link. > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 9/5/22 8:22 PM, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: > >

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
I'm pretty sure those locations are hard coded. It might be worth investigating the Windows equivalent of a symbolic link. Regards, Adrien On 9/5/22 8:22 PM, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: In the C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc directory, in the gnucash subdirectory, where there is an

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
In the C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc directory, in the gnucash subdirectory, where there is an "enviroment" file, I added an "environment.local" file with the following content: GNC_DATA_HOME=c:\users\butte\dropbox\gnucash I then opened up gnucash, but the saved reports are still not

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Glenn Fowler
Hi Stan, I'm not where I can look into it but here is the info for configuring your file location: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#System-wide On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 7:26 PM Stan Brown wrote: > > On 2022-09-05 15:26, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: > > On the "new" laptop

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
Thanks, but that section is a bit above my "pay-grade". As I posted, I already know where the saved reports are being stored on the 1 Windows laptop in question, my issue is how to *relocate* that location. I take it I'm suppose to create GNC_DATA_HOME and/or GNC_CONFIG_HOME somewhere with the

Re: [GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread Stan Brown
On 2022-09-05 15:26, butterands...@gmail.com wrote: > On the "new" laptop it is looking for the saved reports in > c:\users\butte\Appdata\Roaming\Gnucash. I want it to look in > c:\users\butte\Dropbox\Gnucash where the current Gnucash data file > resides. Can someone give me a clue how I

[GNC] Saved Reports Location Question

2022-09-05 Thread butterandsalt
I had everything set up perfectly between 2 laptops, working great, used dropbox to sync my GnuCash data file and saved reports; but unfortunately, had to reinstall Windows on 1 of the laptops. I have everything back working fine, including syncing of the Gnucash data file, except for the