How are log files used?

[Derek Atkins]

Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> writes:

> I want to be able to find out what transactions were *entered* in
> gnucash on a given date in the past -- not the date those transactions
> were transacted, which gnucash does record.  Can the .xac or the .log
> files be used for this purpose?

The .log files definitely contain that info.

> Presumably the .xac files can be opened the same was as the master file
> can be opened, but how are the .log files opened?

Yes.  The .log files can be "replayed"..  Or you can look at them
in a text editor.  There is no "log file viewer".

> Ken Heard

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-derek

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