The new nano 3.0 is now very fast at opening large files. (for those to skittish to jump into vim and emacs)
Regards, Adrien > On Sep 12, 2018, at 8:37 AM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > LibreOffice is a word processor with its own XML features. It very likely > didn’t preserve GnuCash’s XML but instead substituted its own. Try again > using a plain text editor like vi, vim, emacs, etc. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Sep 12, 2018, at 4:42 AM, John Sears via gnucash-user >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi , >> >> My file doesn't seem to be compressed. I managed to open it up directly in >> LibreOffice Word and do the replacement. and then save the file as a .xml. >> ( over 9000 pages !) >> >> I don't seem to be able to open this XML file in GNC.. I get the "No >> suitable backend was found for /media/john/USB DISK/trialgnucash2.gnucash." >> >> Any ideas? >> >> I'm sorry if these are such newbie quesions :( >> >> Thanks John >> >> GNC 2.6.19 >> >> >> On 12/09/2018 11:49, Adrien Monteleone wrote: >>> Perhaps someone else who’s come across this might offer some tips, but >>> here’s how I’d approach it: >>> >>> Your data file (if using the default backend) is just an XML file that is >>> compressed. >>> >>> Uncompress it (with tar) and use either your favorite text editor or sed >>> command to conduct a find&replace. >>> >>> If you’re using one of the SQL backends, you can run an UPDATE command to >>> replace the given text. (research this command well for your particular >>> backend before proceeding) >>> >>> You only need to replace the “G:/documents” or whatever you used part of >>> the file path, not the actual pdf file name. If the bulk of the path is the >>> same as before, just say mounted on /media instead of G:/ then you only >>> need to replace “G:” with “/media” (the slash left over after “:” will >>> continue the path) >>> >>> In any case, I’d work on a copy of your data file and then check it out to >>> make sure everything is fine. Then perhaps store the non-modified copy as >>> an extra backup just in case you find a problem down the road. >>> >>> Don’t forget to change your default path in GnuCash preferences. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adrien >>> >>>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 7:00 PM, John Sears via gnucash-user >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> When using the associate files function for a transaction within >>>> GNUCash on Windows, I stored all of my pdfs on an external USB/ SD >>>> card. Windows mapped this address with a letter, G, in this case. ( I >>>> also store my accounts on this same card now) >>>> >>>> So my files were all stored on G:/documents/xxx.pdf >>>> >>>> Now that I have transferred to Linux, this path is not recognised - " >>>> GNUCash could not open the associated URI: file:///G:/documents/xxx.pdf" >>>> >>>> Is there a way to bulk edit the paths of all the links so that Linux >>>> will recognise the SD path? I would prefer not to go into every >>>> single transaction to do this, as I have a lot of linked files. >>>> >>>> Or is there someway ( and this might be more of a Linux question) to map >>>> the SD card to the "file:///G" terminology. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> gnucash-user mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>>> ----- >>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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