How are log files used?

[Yawar Amin]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> wrote:

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


This info is in the main accounts file as well. Each transaction has an
associated date entered and date posted. The date entered is what you're
looking for. Look around in the XML for a transaction and you'll notice it.

HTH,

Yawar