Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

[John Ralls]

On Nov 27, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Dennis Powless wrote:

> Can I store the gnucash files on a server and access them to run the
> application?  What is the xml people are talking about?
> 
> I am using a thumb drive while at work since my work blocks dropbox.
> When not at work I just copy the file from the thumb drive to the
> dropbox folder.
> 


xml is a way of marking up text to make it easier for computers to understand what to do with it. It's somewhat related to the HTML that web pages use. Gnucash uses it for the default storage format, though 2.4 will allow using a relational database for storage as well.

Yes, for most purposes a gnucash file can live on a fileserver as long as gnucash can access it using normal file commands. Obviously you must be able to write to as well as read from the fileserver.

Regards,
John Ralls