rearranging accounts - backdoor?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:56:49PM -0700, Brad Haack wrote:
> I'm just getting started w/ gnucash and have imported my data from 
> quicken.  All of the accounts and categories got spread out at the top 
> level and I'd like to reorganize them as subs under the main accounts 
> (asset, income,etc).  I see how to do this with the GUI, but it's going 
> to be slow and painful.  Is there a file hidden away that I can edit, or 
> some other way to get at this with a text editor?


technically, yes, you could edit the file. It is gzipped xml. But it
is strongly *not* recommended. However, there exist xml fields for the
accounts and it's parent is specified by guid, so you could do it. Be
sure you back up first, and really, it's probably not any faster to do
it that way. 

A
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