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

[Dragos Puri]

Hello Brad,

I'm on Windows 7.

It seems that Gnucash version 5.11 works fine on Win7, if I use older
Gnucash Android version 2.4.0 exports.
So I think I'll stick to this combination. I didn't see any worthwhile
improvements on the newer Android version anyway.

Best Regards,
Dragos

On Sun, 25 May 2025 at 13:52, Brad Morrison <bradmorrison at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi Dragos/GNUCash users,
>
> What version of Windows are you using?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
>
> https://gnucash.org/download.phtml - while the current version of
> GNUCash is 5.11, if the hardware that you are using does not support
> Windows 8 or newer, it looks like 5.11 may not work well.
>
> If you are unable to purchase newer hardware, you may be able to run a
> Linux distribution on your existing hardware and use the current, 5.11
> version of GNUCash - https://distrowatch.com/
>
> ---
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>
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> On 2025-05-25 01:13, Dragos Puri wrote:
>
> > 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