Importing Account Hierarchy

[Code Guru]

Renaming the file from "accounts" to "accounts.gnucash" allowed me to open
the file directly.

Thank you for the tip.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:55 PM Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> The current version is 2.6.16, I suggest you upgrade to it, a lot of water
> has gone under the bridge since 2.2.4 :-)
>
> Exporting my accounts file in the same manner in 2.6.16 gave me
> accounts.gnucash, an xml file which can be directly open in GnuCash - no
> import of any sort required.  You might want to check that you've got the
> "File Name Extensions" checked on - can you see extensions for other files
> ok ?
>
> Cheers Dave H.
>
>
> On 26 April 2017 at 08:37, Code Guru <codeguru42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am a long-time user of gnucash. I want to start a brand new gnucash file
>> with the exact same accounts hierarchy as an old one. I used
>> File->Export->Export Accounts to supposedly export the accounts from the
>> existing file. I saved this as "accounts" but the Save As... dialog did
>> not
>> give the file an automatic extension as I expected. And when I go to
>> File->Import, there is not "Import Accounts" option. Should I rename my
>> accounts file with a .qif extension? If not, what extension should I use?
>> And how do I import the accounts? Or if File->Export->Export Accounts is
>> incorrect, what should I do instead?
>>
>> p.s. I am using gnucash 2.2.4 on Windows 7.
>>
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