Gnucash file is getting long!

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought I had set this up with SQLite3, but this does make me question that. I tried looking for something that would tell me but I’m not seeing it. Certainly, trying to open the file directly, it is not uncompressed XML.
> 
> Is there something in a log file or config file that might indicate which backend is presently in use?
> 
> And if it is XML, I don’t suppose I can switch can I?

Adrien,

If it’s a SQLite3 file the first bytes will be “SQLite format 3” in ASCII. A compressed XML file will have no ASCII in the header. 

Regards,
John Ralls