Dear Gramps expert,
I have used Gramps 5 years ago (version 5.1x). Now I have a new laptop and installed Gramps 6.0. How can I import the saved gramps-file?
Thanks for your help. Healthy regards, Ivo
Copy the saved .gramps or .gpkg (preferable) to the desktop of the new laptop that has had Gramps 6.0 installed.
With Gramps NOT running, right-click that file and choose to open it with Gramps.
Gramps will start, create a blank tree (using the filename as its name), load the blank tree, and import the Tree backup file.
If the file was a .gramps file, you will have to manually copy over the Media files. (Which is why the .gpkg file with media is preferable. The file is huge and takes a LOT of time to compress and expand. But it is easier to restore.)
The paths to the media files will still have be resolved. (That’s covered in other threads.)
Note: If the “saved file” is the database rather than a backup file, there’s a different process.
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