Hi David, thanks for clarification. For every major release (either 2.x or 3.x series), is there a guarantee for file format compatibility?
Wirawan On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:21 PM David Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > > According to the developers, the only pre-3.x version of GnuCash that is > expected to read data files that have been touched by a 3.x version is > release 2.6.21, possibly with a suffix depending on the OS it is run in. > When a file is first touched by 3.x there are some unspecified changes that > may be at least partially mentioned in other threads here. They do not > specify if there are any changes in the database variations, but there > probably are. > > David Carlson > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 9:08 PM Wirawan Purwanto <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wonder if anyone has a pointer on the changes in Gnucash XML format >> that can cause incompatibility across program versions. I have a >> scenario where one OS uses Gnucash 2.6.x series whereas the other uses >> 3.5. I am concerned when transporting data file back and forth, if >> there is corruption due to incompatible file format. >> >> In my recent trial to migrate files back and forth between 2.6 and >> 3.5, I noted that data seems to be intact. But in the 2.6 series, the >> "cmdty:space" field has the value of "ISO4217" whereas in 3.5 it was >> "CURRENCY". But I noted that a very old GNUCash version (2.4.10) >> failed to read the dates correctly from the file that was saved by >> 3.5. All dates became "1969-12-31" when read in the 2.4 program. >> Because of this I am not quite sure what is safe to do or not safe. >> Would be nice if there is a prominent / easy-to-find web page which >> tells end-user like me regarding file version incompatibility. _______________________________________________ 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.
