edit file.gnucash

[Harold]

I assume that you mean to do this from the command line.
Now I remember,  I would be renaming my data file so the archive manager would recognize it as a zipped file.

At 68 the memory is not what it used to be.
Thanks for you patience,
Harold



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From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
To: Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: edit file.gnucash

Hi,

On Fri, October 21, 2011 11:58 am, Harold 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.
>
> What do I need to do to open my data file?

mv file.gnucash file.gnucash.gz
gunzip file.gnucash.gz

>
> Thanks,
> Harold

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