edit file.gnucash

[Harold]

Thanks for all the help. I was able to open the file with gedit and search for the string that contained the year 1969 and it was not there. There was the year 1970, so everything seems to be fine.
Harold



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From: Colin Scott <gnucash at double-bars.net>
To: hh6199 at yahoo.com; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: gnucash at double-bars.net
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 3:38 AM
Subject: Re: edit file.gnucash


1.      Start up gnucash.

2.      Go to Edit / Preferences / General

3.      Uncheck "Compress Files"

4.      Save the file

5.      Close Gnucash

Your Gnucash file will now be uncompressed, and you will be able to feed it direct to your favourite text editor.

Colin

-------- Original Message --------

*Subject:* edit file.gnucash
*From:* Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
*To:* Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
*Date:* Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:58:55 -0700 (PDT)

I was wanting to edit the gnucash data file that I have in Mint Debian to make sure that it didn't have the year 1969 that causes a problem in Windows XP. I tried to open myfile.gnucash in version 2.4.7 with gedit and firefox. Gedit gave me an error and couldn't open it. Firefox didn't open it but allowed me to save it which I didn't want to do. Then I tried opening it with the archive manager. Extracting gave me an error. Gedit gave me the same error from inside the archive manager that it did earlier.

What do I need to do to open my data file?

Thanks,
Harold
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