Changing starting invoice number

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 00:26:20 Pablo Francesca wrote:
> I would like to change my starting invoice number.  I remember reading
> about this before, but I can't seem to find the information anymore.  When
> I try to edit the xml file for my gnucash 2.2.9, I first decompressed it
> using Jzip, then edited it with Notepad+++.  Near the beginning of the file
> in the counters section, I found a value of 123 under Invoices and I
> changed it to 2126.  Then I saved and recompressed the file and changed the
> file extension. When I tried to open it with gnucash I get the dreaded
> cannot parse file message.
>
> When I create a new invoice currently, the invoice number is 000124, so
> I'm pretty sure this is the correct area to edit.  I would like the
> invoice number to start at 002126.
>
> What did I miss?

Hi,

What you describe sounds correct to me.

 this is from my data file, about 50 lines in:
       <slot:key>gncInvoice</slot:key>
        <slot:value type="integer">10018</slot:value>

I know that I altered the invoice number sequence recently - the number stored 
is that of the last invoice created.

Maybe don't recompress the data file once you have done the edit? (GC is happy 
with plain XML)
Maybe notepad+++ causes an issue with Unix->Windows CR/LF or charset 
encoding - try a different text editor?

HTH,
Maf.
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