gnucash, solved :-)

[Camuzat Sebastien]

hi Greg, Hi everyone here.

So, let me make a summary of my experience.
After seraching on the web for bits of information, I
finally saved my account in the .xml format. This
solved my problem. Xml seems to be the native format
for Gnucash. The problem is that I didn't know it
until I got serious problems :-)

And finally it is a similar solution to the one you
experience, in .qif.

I still did not install the 1.8.12 version, anyway it
doesnt really matter now, it works :-) 

Thanks !
Sebastien

--- Gregg Fowler <greggfowler at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:27 -0800, Camuzat Sebastien
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone !
> > I've got trouble with gnucash.
> > >From time to time, it doesn't want to access to
> the
> > latest file, saying that it has been issued by a
> more
> > recent version (of gnucash). That's odd !
> > I installed the 1.8.10 available in repositories,
> and
> > tried to upgrade it to the newer version
> 1.8.12.deb
> > unsuccessfully.
> > 
> > And, globally speaking, Ive got difficulties to
> > understand why it's generating so many (backup?)
> > files, for one single account.
> > And I cannot open manually a file, from a
> directory.
> > 
> > Does anyone use gnucash under ubuntu and face the
> same
> > kind of trouble ?
> > 
> > Seb
> 
> 
> First of all just want to let you know that I am no
> expert. I am using
> 1.8.10 and haven't tried to update. There may be a
> possibility that when
> you tried to upgrade the information is somehow
> showing up as you having
> the newer version, when in reality you did not get
> the upgrade installed
> (maybe someone else can give you a technical
> explanation). I too get
> what seems to be a lot of "backup" files when in
> reality it is only one
> file that I need to keep and that is the .qif file
> that I set up as the
> back up. This backs up every time. The other files
> is a back up file
> that is generated for each time you use gnucash and
> have new
> transactions. There is also a log file that is
> generated. I delete these
> files with no problem. These files have a series of
> numbers after the
> file with a .xac or .log designation. I believe .xac
> is the transaction
> file and .log is the log file. The only file that I
> keep is the .qif
> file and it always opens with the current data. I
> just learned from
> experimentation. There is also a gnucash mailing
> list that has been
> helpful. Wish I could be of more help, but I just
> migrated from Windows
> and Microsoft Money a couple of weeks ago so have
> much to learn. I
> wondered at first if gnucash would suit my needs,
> but it is now
> functioning well for me or rather possibly I for it.
> :-)
> 
> Gregg
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