Re: [Gramps-users] Problems editing gramps XML files

[Ron J. <ron...@co...>]

So, I copy a .gramps file to a tmp dir, rename it to .gramps.gz and then 
gunzip it.

Now I have
$ ls -1
Johnson-Lyle-Gilbert-Bakewell_2013-02-05_05:00:01.gramps

$ file Johnson-Lyle-Gilbert-Bakewell_2013-02-05_05:00:01.gramps
Johnson-Lyle-Gilbert-Bakewell_2013-02-05_05:00:01.gramps: XML document text

The permissions on the file are -rw-rw-r-- and the file is most certainly 
editable in vim, gedit and mousepad.

Can you show us how it's not editable?

On 02/28/2013 07:59 AM, doug wrote:
> I've been exporting sections of my database as grampsXML
> files, intending to edit them before re-importing.
> However the XML files (whether unzipped or opened directly
> in kate) are not editable - I can open and search in them
> but make no changes, although they should be writable
> according to the file permissions. (All the selections apart
> from one very small one appear to be non-editable).
> I'm running gramps 3.4.2-1 in linux (LMDE update6).
>
> Is this other people's experience or just mine?
>
>
> I wonder if the fact that some of the event descriptions
> have a cross "+" in them could be screwing things up.
>
> Doug
>

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