edit file.gnucash

[Harold]

No, I have not gotten it open. I opened the archive manager and had it open the data file. Not real sure of what to do from the archive manager rather than try to extract or try to open what it shows. Niether worked. Got a error when trying to extract. May be some setting in the archive manage that I don't know how to use. My main experience with comptessed files came from Winzip.
Harold



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From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: edit file.gnucash

On 21 October 2011 16:58, Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was wanting to edit the gnucash data file that I have in Mint Debian to make sure that it didn't have the year 1969 that causes a problem in Windows XP. I tried to open myfile.gnucash in version 2.4.7 with gedit and firefox. Gedit gave me an error and couldn't open it. Firefox didn't open it but allowed me to save it which I didn't want to do. Then I tried opening it with the archive manager. Extracting gave me an error. Gedit gave me the same error from inside the archive manager that it did earlier.

So it opened ok with the archive manager but you could not extract the
contents?  If so what was the error?

Colin L