If you try to open the file with a text editor (I used Atom, because TextEdit complained about something wrong with UTF-8 in the file) you will see this at the beginning:
SQLite format 3 If it is an sqlite format. If it is the compressed XML, you’ll see gibberish/non-printable character. If you uncompress the file, and try to read it with a text editor, you’ll of course see XML. I’m not sure if there is any other way to tell. (short of using a hex editor, etc.) Regards, Adrien > On Dec 4, 2018, at 1:55 AM, Maf. King <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Lorrie, > > Are you sure you are using an XML file for your GC data? IIRC, using the > SQLite format stops the creation of the timestamp backup files. > > I'm not entirely sure how to check what format the file is in, but if you do > a > file-> Save As and look at the options in that dialog box it *may* shed some > light. Cancel if you don't actually want to rename the file, of course. > > 0.02 > Maf. > > > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:13:38 GMT David Cousens wrote: >> Lorrie, >> >> That looks OK apart from not creating the backup file which should have been >> created when you opened the file to to make the change , saved it and then >> closed the file. (I noticed in an earlier post you mentioned adding an .xml >> file extension. There is no need to do that as the .gnucash is the correct >> extension.) >> >> There should have been a file >> >> finances.gnucash.<date-timestamp>.gnucash >> >> with the same <date-timestamp> roughly as the log file. It may differ by a >> few seconds. >> <date-timestamp> has the format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS". >> >> In most cases the datestamp on the log file and the backup file only differ >> by 1-2 s on my system with the backup file created first and then the log >> file. >> >> There is a preference in the Edit->Preferences General tab where you can set >> the file retention period for the backups and log files. I usually leave >> it at the default of 30 days as I have terrabytes of free space on my >> system but it is generally a good idea to set this so you have a few backup >> and logfiles on your system so you can recover maximum data if you ever >> have a file corruption issue. This is only likely if GnuCash or the OS >> crashes while writing to the file. >> >> David Cousens >> >> >> >> ----- >> David Cousens >> -- >> Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > -- > Maf. King > PGP Key fingerprint = 8D68 A91F 733B 2C1F 43B7 2B7C E591 E8E1 0DE7 C542 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
