Gnucash file is getting long!

[Adrien Monteleone]

Thanks John,

I got it sorted in a more roundabout way, but that was the quick and easy method I was looking for. The file was XML indeed.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Jun 20, 2017, at 11:31 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Jun 20, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Is there something in a log file or config file that might indicate which backend is presently in use?
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>> And if it is XML, I don’t suppose I can switch can I?
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> Adrien,
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> 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. 
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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