Reducing File Size

[Manfred Usselmann]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:27:46 -0000
"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 5 January 2011 at 13:49, Colin Law said:
> 
> > On 5 January 2011 13:11, Mike C. <subscribe307 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > I didn't mean the database was in .gnucash.  It is located in My
> > > Documents but has a file extension .gnucash for the versions 2.4
> > > files. The 2.2.9 files have no extension.
> > 
> > I see that you are right, I had not noticed that 2.4 adds
> > the .gnucash extension.  Sorry for the noise.
> 
> Is this actually the case?
> 
> What I see is that the current file retains its established name (in
> my case, "accounts-2") while the backup, which used to be called 
> "<filename>.<datetime>.xac", is now "<filename>.<datetime>.gnucash".
> 
> (WinXP-SP3, Gnucash upgraded from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0).

You're both right. The extension is not added to existing GnuCash
files, the name is not changed. But if you create a new file, the new
default extension .gnucash is added.

Manfred 


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