Bump: exporting from gnucash...?

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 18 maart 2011, Karl Auer wrote:
> Another question where I'd appreciate a hint...
> 
> Can I get my data out of GnuCash if I need to?
> 
> Thanks, K.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
> To: GnuCash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: exporting from gnucash...?
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:23:29 +1100
> 
> GnuCash has "File->Export accounts", but that seems to be it. That
> option creates an XML file with (surprise!) the accounts in it, but no
> transaction detail. The file has the ".gnucash" extension, but is
> straight XML.
> 
> Is there any way to export more detail to (say) QIF, OXF etc?
> 
> Regards, K.

In addition to the answers of the others, your GnuCash data file is straight 
xml itself, optionally (and likely) compressed with gzip. That format is 
fairly universal in itself.

And since GnuCash 2.4 you could save your data in an sqlite3 file or in a 
MySQL or PostGreSQL database. I would still be cautious to do that with 
production grade data. But other than that, this stores your data in such a 
way you can access it from external tools.

Less extreme: reports can be exported to html. Several users reported before 
of using this to post process there reports in Excel or OpenOffice Calc.

These are obviously all only partial solutions, but may be of use depending on 
what you want to do with your exported data.

Geert