Error Parsing the File

[jomali]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Geert Janssens
<janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Peggy Pignato wrote:
> >  I named the file "Accounting", but I do not have a folder by that name.
> >  Please tell me which folder I should be looking in.  Thank you!
> >
> You don't have a file named Accounting in directory C:\Users\Peggy ?
>
> That file should be your compressed gnucash datafile. It may not look like
> a
> compressed file, because it doesn't have an extension.
>
> If you rename (a copy) of the file to Accounting.gz, 7-Zip will recognize
> it.
> Note that I say 7-Zip. Windows cannot uncompress a .gz file. You will need
> an
> external tool for that. 7-Zip, Winzip and probably others can be used.
>
> Geert
> <snip>
>


Might I suggest that the user not use an external zip/unzip file? Just
change your General preferences to not compress the file in the first place.
The next save will be an uncompressed .xac file, which you can manipulate
and reopen without problems. If, when you are satisfied with your changes,
you want to save your data file in a compressed format, just change your
General preferences back.

Jomali