Is there a way to merge diverged books?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri May 21 12:10:30 EDT 2010


Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2010-05-21, at 06:03, Dmitry V'yal wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> I didn't add any accounts since split, I only have been adding new transactions. Given that gnucash stores it's database as gzipped xml, is there a chance to merge the databases somehow? Is the format of the database documented somewhere?
>
> Try it out: gunzip both the files, put both the XML files in a single directory, and run a merge. If you've meticulously entered different transactions in different files, you'll see no conflicts. If you do see conflicts, you'll at least know what they are.

Note that this is not officially supported.

Ideally you should only use a single data file, and only one person
should make edits.  If there are multiple people you should make sure
you share a single data file, and only one person is making edits.

:)

> HTH,
>
>   Yawar

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