Forwarding data to another computer

[Maf. King]

On Thu 6 September 12 14:38:30 Selvaswami wrote:
> Well, I have the GnuCash up on my screen,
> 
> the top line says file type is  XML
> 
> I do File > Save As > filename.gnucash  and it saves just that way.
> 
> When I attach it to an email, it attaches as  filename.gcm  and opens in
> Notepad.
> 
> Gnucash for Windows 2.4.10 on Windows 7
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Thank you,

Hi,

In which folder are you saving the file?

on my linux version of 2.4.10, I get both
<filename.gnucash> and <filename.gnucash.gcm> saved in the path 
~/.gnucash/books/  (Not sure what the equivalent windows path would be.)

Neither of these are my data file.

My data is in a completely different place.  Are you sure that you are really 
attaching you data file?  What happens if you save the file back out from a 
sent email - does it open on your computer?

when you see it in notepad, is it legible?  does it start with something like

[Top]
BookGuid=a5ed76d745f6951ad97a3eb7ae59df75
WindowCount=1

or 
<gnc-v2
     xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc"
     xmlns:act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/act"

if the top one, it isn't your data file.  if the bottom one, it (probably) is.

HTH,
Maf.