Can we merge Gnucash files

[Don Quixote de la Manvha]

Gnucash documents are compressed XML files.  There is a setting to store them uncompressed.

Make backups of both files in case of trouble.  Save both uncompressed then use diff or some other text comparison tool to find the differences. TextWrangler on os x will do that.  I expect notepad++ on windows will as well.

If the XML schema makes sense to you, a simple copy and paste might solve your problem.

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On Nov 25, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Selwyn Bergman <sbergman at bmsc-online.co.za> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I made a small mistake when updating my gnucash files recently:
> 
> I copied my actual gnucash onto a USB drive and took it to another pc at my
> workplace to update. Once finished I "thought" I copied the updated back to
> my home PC and overwrote the one that was there. Since then I've continued
> working on my home PC and processed about a months transactions, and then
> realised that all the things I'd done on my work PC is not visible on the
> copy on my home PC even though I copied it across at the time.
> 
> So I've got some transactions on the Gnucash on my work pc which I'd like
> to merge into the copy on my home pc.
> 
> Is there a way of opening up a file and selecting all the transactions
> within a date range and saving that.... and later merging this file into
> another gnucash?
> 
> Thanks.
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