David,
Another useful addition might be a cautionary note in the documentation
section on backups that when you change GnuCash versions, it will be a good
idea to refresh any backup files (open and resave them) to keep them
openable by the current version.
David Cousens
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David Cousens
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look for older binaries first. I
wonder if docker would be an option instead of a virtual machine for
building and running older gnucash versions (I have only played with
docker a little). Either way, if I get something that works I'll be
sure to publish it so
If GnuCash can detect that the file was created by an earlier version which
cannot be read and converted automatically to the current
version, there should be a way to read which version is needed to open it.
Then it should be possible to download a pre-compiled version from some
source on the
On Mon, 13 May 2019 09:35:12 + (UTC)
"David T. via gnucash-user" wrote:
> I don't even know whether those earlier versions will run on your
> machine today.
>
> I don't know whether there's another way to do this.
>
> David
A long slog, with virtual machines and old operating systems,
As I understand, you'd have to load earlier versions and work your way up to
the current version. I'm not sure how many intermediate versions you'd need to
go through.
However, your newest files in that range predate version 2.0.0 by more than a
year. Which means you'd have to download,
I'm using gnucash 3.5, trying to open files from 2002 to about 2005
and for each one it says, "This file/URL appears to be from a newer
version of GnuCash. You must upgrade your version of GnuCash to work
with this data."
Is there any way for me to open these old gnucash files?
Thanks,
Bryan
