Can you install version 4.x on your box and try again. Maybe even a 3.x. On Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 17:01 MegaBrutal <megabru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I've been using GnuCash between 2015 to 2017 to help to straighten out > my personal finances. Due to changes in my life, my transaction count > increased significantly which required more and more time to enter, > while I got less free time to do the accounting. Meanwhile, my > financial problems basically got resolved and my motivation to keep on > updating my GnuCash file dropped significantly. > > Now I got a situation that I'm looking for certain transactions from > around that time and I remembered that I should check my old GnuCash > file, untouched since 2017-09-21. To my shock, the modern GnuCash > version that comes with my distro (Ubuntu 23.10) crashes when I try to > open my old file. Here is my GnuCash version and the backtrace I get: > > --- > > GnuCash 5.3 > Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26) > > Backtrace: > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 1752:10 5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ #:unwind-for-type _) > In unknown file: > 4 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 7f192cf10360>) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 2836:4 3 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 7f19170bcb80 at > ice-9/eval-string.scm:66:9 ()>) > In ice-9/eval-string.scm: > 38:6 2 (read-and-eval #<input: string 7f19170bae70> #:lang _) > In ice-9/eval.scm: > 619:8 1 (_ #(#<directory (gnucash utilities) 7f192cface60> > #<collectable-swig-pointer std::unique_ptr< GncOptionDB > * > 563d43f24190>)) > In unknown file: > 0 (GncOption-set-value #<pointer 0x563d43f29340> (absolute > 1496181600 . 0)) > > ERROR: In procedure GncOption-set-value: > Wrong type (expecting exact integer): (1496181600 . 0) > > Some deprecated features have been used. Set the environment > variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the > program to get more information. Set it to "no" to suppress > this message. > > --- > > Maybe I was wrong that I expected some backward compatibility that > modern versions are capable of performing incremental updates to old > files to update it to the current file format... What to do now? Any > suggestions? > > > Best regards, > MegaBrutal > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
