Re: Compression

[Derek Atkins]

7zip is not gzip.  So the problem is that gnucash cannot read the 7zip file..  just load the file into gnucash as a non compressed file and gnucash should still compress when it writes out.

-derek

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From: "Dustin Henning" <The00Dustin at gmx.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 6:47 pm
Subject: Compression
To: <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>

	I tried searching nabble, but I'm not familiar with nabble, so I
could have been doing it wrong.  Regardless, searching "GnuCash gzip"
returned way too much nonsense.  I believe I read that the GnuCash XML file
is compressed with GZip and this can be turned off.  I don't want to turn it
off, but I have found that when I decompress the file to edit the XML and
then recompress it, GnuCash thinks it is invalid (even though it will open
the plain XML fine).  This means either A) I'm remembering wrong thinking
gzip or B) the compression settings have to be very specific.  I'm on
Windows, so I'm using 7-Zip to decompress and would prefer to use it to
recompress as well.  Can someone point me toward the information on the
exact compression used or tell me what settings I should use in 7-zip (or
outside of 7-zip, for instance, the filename before compression)?  Thanks,
	Dustin