Moving data file from Ubuntu Linux to Windows XP

Andrew Sackville-West ajswest at mindspring.com
Wed Nov 28 21:03:29 EST 2007


On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:25:37AM +0900, Ian Lewis wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> ** I should remember to cc the list ;) Sorry about that **
> 
> I remember that the gzip feature that zips the datafile wasn't working on
> windows for a while. The devs might be able to answer that better. If the
> windows version handles that properly then I couldn't imagine why this would
> be a problem. If not, then you'll need to gunzip the datafile before opening
> it in windows.
> 
> See: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2007-March/019776.html
> And:
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019876.html

Its referenced in those thread, but to save the effort of searching...

on linux, Edit->Preferences->Files->Compress Files. 

Interestingly, the wiki refers to this as being fixed at 

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Todo, but the link doesn't
actually go anywhere. ymmv.

A
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