[GNC] Opening export of Gnucash Android into Gnucash Windows is empty

[Dragos Puri]

Hello everyone,

I should have said that I used previous versions of the Android app, that's
why I have 10 years worth of data, and just yesterday I updated to the
latest version.
I would regularly make backups of the books, but now, after the Android
update, I noticed that the xml export file extension changed to .xac and
when I open it with the Windows application, it appears empty.

I have attached the xml, if anyone cares to take a look.

Best Regards,
Dragos

On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 09:13, sunfish62 at yahoo.com <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> GnuCash Pocket is not affiliated in any way with the desktop app, so your
> first stop should be the app's developer. That person should be able to
> guide you.
>
> Regarding Stan's question about versions, the app, being completely
> separate from this project, has a separate numbering. Your problem likely
> doesn't arise from mismatched versions, but rather mismatched data.
>
> I'm perhaps dense, but can you explain how you have just installed GnuCash
> Pocket but somehow have ten years' data in it?
>
> Second, waiting until you have ten years of data before checking to see if
> you are able to import is not an advised practice. Since you're in the
> situation, it might be good to try getting a very small set of data to
> import, so that you can begin to figure out where the hiccups are
> happening. Perhaps you could export to a more generic format (csv, e.g.)
> and test with that.
>
> David T.
> On May 25, 2025, at 1:25 AM, Dragos Puri <dragospuri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm having an issue and I hope you can help me.
>> I just installed Gnucash Pocket version 2.5.8 and exported a .xac file.
>> This contains data from the last 10 years.
>> I want to open this with Gnucash on Windows version 5.11 and what I get is
>> nothing.
>> There is no error message, just an empty screen. Even if I try to create a
>> new account it doesn't show up.
>> The trace file is also empty.
>>
>> What can I do to try to debug this?
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Dragos Puri
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Dragos Puri
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