gnucash-user Digest, Vol 138, Issue 7

[Colin Law]

On 6 September 2014 21:18, Andy Lavarre <alavarre at gmail.com> wrote:
> CSV Import/Export: Problem Solved
>
> I'll post this to my blog and let Google digest it, but in the meantime
> delighted to report problem solved. (I think.)
>
> Easy when you know how:
>
> It turns out that (ITOT) the GnuCash CSV import routine requires exactly one
> line per transaction split, and *NO HEADERS*, *NO TRANSACTION SUMMARY* line,
> and a funky *DATE FORMAT.**
> *
> So you have to load the exported CSV file into an application, e.g.,
> LibreOffice, and farkle with it a bit. ESPECIALLY if it was exported from
> GnuCash.
>
> My need is due to the fact that my main (Linux) machine is out of
> commission, so I need to use a different (Windows 7) machine for a while
> until I recover the main one.
>
> During that time I need to be entering transactions to balance the check
> book etc. When I get the main machine back I want simply to export the
> transactions that have been entered into GnuCash on the Win7 during the
> outage and import them back into the main machine, which has years of data
> already there.

Can you not just take the accounts file (the xml file) to the Win
machine and use it there till your main m/c is operational?  Then move
the accounts file back.