Liz, The saved reports are in /home/liz/.local/share/gnucash/saved_reports2.8. GNC_USERDATA_DIR is the location for the user preferences data and does not refer to the users gnucash data files which are always stored in a location of choice under the users's home directory , i.e. it is not specified by GnuCash but by the users.
Part of the confusion for new users is that there is no one location in the documentation which discusses the location of the book data files and the user preference files. The most complete info is in the wiki, but new users are not going to necessarily go there. It is further complicated by having had to shift with upgrades to the various libraries used by GnuCash which forces change in the locations between differnt GnuCash Versions. Add to that that the three OS's all store such data differently. Maybe the wiki contents are sufficiently mature to be put in the main documentation. David Cousens On Sun, 2023-08-13 at 10:40 +1000, Liz wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:00:35 +0300 > Shevach Pepper <sheva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > I've just had to do this because I dropped my laptop. > I've gone from 4.14 to 5.1 in the same move. > > I've transferred my ~/ (home directory) from one computer to the new > one. > Gnucash opens, but a lot of my preferences are gone, and even which is > my next invoice number. > I open Gnucash > Help > About, and attach the screenshot. > > This tells me where to look for my preferences, data etc. > GNC_USERDATA_DIR is /home/liz/.local/share/gnucash > Nope, my data files are in subdirectories of > /home/liz/Nextcloud/gnucash/ > My *.gcm files are under books in ~/.local/share/gnucash/ > > $ ls /home/liz/.local/share/gnucash > accelerator-map deviceidhashsalts qif-accounts-map storage > books expressions-2.0 saved-reports-2.8 > stylesheets-2.0 checks hsts-storage.sqlite > saved-reports-2.8-backup translog > > > GNC_USERCONFIG_DIR is /home/liz/.config/gnucash > Nope, this directory is empty (and I checked two other computers that > have shared this data and all are empty directories here) > > > What does the FAQ say? > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_moved.2Frenamed_my_data_file_and_my_reports_disappeared._How_do_I_get_them_back.3F > > "Reports are stored in a separate file in the ~/.gnucash/books > directory." > > Nope, no such directory > $ ls ~/.gnucash/books > ls: cannot access '/home/liz/.gnucash/books': No such file or directory > > > OK, I am supposed to know what I am doing, and I can't this time, > having advanced from 4.14 to 5.1, find where to put my preferences > file(s). > > There is a serious disconnect between the documentation and the new > version here. > I can understand that a person less familiar with Gnucash could have a > lot of difficulty moving to a new computer. > > And by the way, where does the new version expect to find my *.gcm > files?? > > Liz > _______________________________________________ > 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.
