data dropped when upgrading from 1.8.9 to 2.2

[Richard Bradley]

Hi,

I've managed to get my old FreeBSD box running again, so that I can 
compare the differences between 1.8.9 and the current version.

Basically: my 1.8.9 accounts are read fine by the current version on 
Ubuntu (2.2.4), but lots of data gets dropped when I load them into the 
current version on Windows (2.2.5).

The symptoms appear to be that a few accounts (5 out of about 25) have 
had all their transactions dropped, which causes the account totals to 
differ on some other accounts (but I think that all transactions not 
involving the affected accounts are OK). I can't see an obvious pattern 
to which accounts are not imported correctly.

I'm not going to investigate any further, since I can now use the Ubuntu 
version (thanks to the quite nifty Sun VirtualBox). If anyone wants to 
take a look at this, please get in touch with me.

Thanks for all your help,


Rich



Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Richard Bradley <Richard.Bradley at cantab.net> writes:
>
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >
> >>>I used gnucash for quite a while on FreeBSD, using version 1.8.9.
> >>>
> >>>I'm trying to upgrade to the current version, but it seems to drop a load
> >>>of my data when importing the old accounts file.
> >>>    
> >>>
> >>
> >>What do you mean by this?  What gets "dropped"?  GnuCash shouldn't
> >>drop data, but also there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8
> >>to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release.  It SHOULDN'T be a
> >>problem, because the XML format doesn't have a lot of differences.
> >>  
> >>
> >
> > What I mean is that some account totals are different in 2.2 to what
> > they were in 1.8, and quite a few line items don't appear in the
> > affected accounts.
>
> What account totals are different?
> Have you looked in those accounts to compare what you see from before?
>
> > It seems like some of the transactions just haven't been loaded.
>
> I doubt that they are not loaded.  That seems pretty far fetched.
>
> > I'm not 100% certain that there isn't just a new filter or something
> > which is causing some transactions to be hidden (but why would that
> > affect the totals?).
>
> That is true.  Do you have multiple currencies?  Stocks?
>
> >>> 2) How do I build gnucash from source on ubuntu "heron"?
> >>>    
> >>>
> >>
> >>apt-get build-dep gnucash
> >>  
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I've done that, and it did install loads of packages. However, I
> > still get "Unknown library `print`" from "gnome-config --libs print"
> >
> > Sorry for not mentioning this straight away, but I'm trying to build
> > the 1.8.9 release, because my plan was to double check the differences
> > in behaviour, and then compare the code which loads the data between
> > the two.
>
> OOOOHHHHH!!!!! You didn't say you wanted to build 1.8!  That's a
> COMPLETELY different animal.
>
> > Is it still possible to build 1.8.9? Do you think that the "unknown
> > library" issue is due to trying to build too old a version?
>
> I have no idea.  It requires a complete Gnome-1 build environment,
> which probably isn't available anymore.
>
> > I haven't yet tried to build 2.2, but I'll have a go tonight.
> >
> >
> > Are you running ubuntu? Does "gnome-config --libs print" work for you?
> > If so, can you determine which package provided the printConf.sh file
> > in /usr/lib (this is what "gnome-config --libs print" defers to, I
> > think).
>
> Nope, I am not running Ubuntu.  And Fedora 7 doesn't have Gnome-1
> anymore.
>
> >> there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8
> >> to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release.
> >
> > I could try loading the accounts through 1.8 -> 2.0 -> 2.2, if you
> > think that would help?
>
> It might?
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Rich
>
> -derek
>
>