GnuCash data migration Windows <> Linux

[Derek Atkins]

"rshuey at rgv" <rshuey at rgv.rr.com> writes:

> Thanks, T.T.  I think that's all it needed.
> I got the Win release first, which happened to be 2.3.5.
> When I later yummed GnuCash into the Linux machine, I got 2.2.9
> The major data file does seem to be all that is needed; the
> ..books.. file seems to be just plain text of what windows were open
> when the program was last closed.
> The major data files do seem incompatible between program versions

It depends what format data file you have.  The default in 2.3 is
SQLite, which is not suported in 2.2.  It's a new-in-2.3/2.4 data
format.  However if you File -> Save As and choose GnuCashXML then your
datafile will work on both versions.

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-derek

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