[GNC] Text Files

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Mon Dec 3 19:46:54 EST 2018


That’s if you chose XML format *and disabled compression in Preferences*. Otherwise the XML is compressed with gzip and will be gibberish if opened in a text editor. It can be easily decompressed with most compression programs like 7zip.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Dec 4, 2018, at 6:02 AM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Gareth,
> 
> If you chose XML format to save your data, all the data files are actually text files. The main data file and its
> backups files are formatted internally with XML tags.  The log files have their own syntax for each transaction record.
> You can open any of them with any text editor. 
> 
> Linux reports the files ending in ".gnucash" as spreadsheet files and the ".log" files as Text files but that is because
> of the mapping of file extensions onto file types used.
> 
> https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-guide/basics-backup1.html
> 
> also https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup
> 
> David Cousens
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 19:37 +0000, Gareth Davies via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply D, but under the file type is says Text Document which can be opened in Notepad.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I might be missing it but I can’t find that reference in the link you sent
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: D [mailto:sunfish62 at yahoo.com] 
>> Sent: 03 December 2018 17:48
>> To: Gareth Davies <gareth.davies.1 at ntlworld.com>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Text Files
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_What_are_all_these_.gnucash_and_.log_files_filling_up_my_directory.3F
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On December 3, 2018, at 11:15 PM, Gareth Davies via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me why there are a load of text files in the folder I save Gnucash to, and can they be safely deleted.
>> 
>> Thanks Gareth
>> 
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>> for Windows 10
>> 
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