Forwarding data to another computer

[Geert Janssens]

On 04-09-12 02:21, Yawar Amin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am forwarding your email to the GnuCash users mailing list, which is a
> public discussion forum where everyone can benefit from sharing
> questions and answers. To participate in the mailing list, click the
> 'Reply All' button in your email program whenever you get an email from
> someone in the list.
>
> On 2012-09-03 18:01, dickwarne at aol.com wrote:
>> I do the accounting for my daugher's business. She is located in
>> another city. In the days when
>> gnucash had a .xac extension, I was able to do this.  Now with the GCM
>> extension she gets a message that says "No suitable backend was found
>> for ....GCM.  My question is how do I format the data to forward it.
>>
Ah, I see your confusion. The file with the ".gcm" extension is not your 
data file. gcm is short hand for "GnuCash Metadata". That file only 
keeps information about what tabs/windows you had open the last time you 
closed your data file.

Newer versions of GnuCash use the extension ".gnucash" by default for 
newly created files. It will not change the extension on existing files 
though. So if you are still working on the same data file from before 
you updated GnuCash, the extension should still be ".xac".

If you're not sure of the name of your data file, you can open GnuCash 
and look in the title bar of the program. It will start with the name of 
your data file. This won't tell you were you stored it on your PC 
though, but search for a file with the name you found in the title bar.

Regards,

Geert