On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:22:33AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > This looks like it might be a GnuCash 1.2 or 1.4 binary datafile. The > ability to read those old binary files was removed more than a decade ago. > > You'll need to import that using something probably as old (new?) as 1.6 > in order to convert it to XML, but you'll probably need a very old OS in > order to build it.
Ok, I didn't find such an old binary. Does anyone still have such a binary running, or a Windows 2.0.x exe somewhere? > [snip] > > Any suggestions on how to get versions of these files that could be > > opened by gnucash 3.10? > > These later XML files are also relatively old. My guess, you'll > probably need to start with 1.6 (or maybe even 1.4 for the binary data) > and then keep on doing File -> Open / File -> Save As to translate the > data files from version to version: > > 1.4 -> 1.6 -> 1.8 (was there a 1.8? I don't recall) -> 2.0 -> 2.2 -> > 2.4 -> 2.6 -> 3.x > > Expect this to take a while. Actually, this quite a bit easier than I expected. I downloaded the Windows 2.2.9 binary and opened the newer file and saved it, then 3.10 could open it successfully. :) Can you please fix this warning: "This file/URL appears to be from a newer version of GnuCash. You must upgrade your version of GnuCash to work with this data." that appeared for this file? Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ 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.
