[GNC] New to GnuCash SQLite on Windows: I have questions

Frank H. Ellenberger frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 17:08:40 EDT 2022


Hi,

just forcompleteness

Am 21.04.22 um 22:31 schrieb John Ralls:
> Linux has had extended attributes since 2002, but they never really caught on and the XDG MIME database relies on file globs--which for practical purposes means file extensions--to determine what program to launch when a user tries to open a data file. 

In theory there is a "file magic".
For uncompressed XML file you can check for the begin:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<gnc-v2

But compressed, it is "hidden" in a gzip container.
I have never looked in a sqlite file.
The other SQL flavours have no specific file.

Regards
Frank


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