edit gnucash file in ubuntu

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Tue, August 30, 2011 3:44 pm, Harold wrote:
> I have been using GnuCash in Ubuntu for a few years now. While trying to
> use GnuCash in Windows XP I posted to the group and was told to edit the
> backup file that I was using in GnuCash for Windows. So that got me to
> thinking about editing the file in Ubuntu. After using the archive manager
> to open the Ubuntu file I get an error when trying to extract the file. I
> tried gedit and libre writer. Both game me an error. I thought the file to
> be extracted was a text file. What am I missing here?

The file is GZipped.  You can use gunzip to decompress it down to an XML
file.  Assuming, of course, you're using the XML backend and not the
SQLite backend.

>
> Thanks,
> Harold

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-derek

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