downgrading data files

[Dave Peticolas]

On 16 Aug 2001 11:56:33 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> I made the mistake of installing GNOME 1.4 onto RH 7.0 and then
> upgrading to RH 7.1. The result was a gummed up system, but before I
> had to give up on it and reinstall RH 7.1, I also upgraded to gnucash
> 1.6. 
> 
> My reinstall of RH 7.1 without GNOME 1.4 meant I had to retreat to
> gnucash 1.4. While the installation went smoothly, I discovered that
> my data files could no longer be read by gnucash 1.4, but only by
> gnucash 1.6. 
> 
> To install the gnucash 1.6, I went to the gnucash web site,
> redhat-7-glib-1.4 directory, and downloaded Guppi, Guppi-devel,
> g-wrap, and g-wrap-devel. Unfortunately, these have dependencies that
> are not readily resolved without installing GNOME 1.4 again, about
> which I'm gun shy. 
> 
> So is there a utility that will safely convert datafiles back to a
> lower level, from that of gnucash 1.6 to gnucash 1.4? 

There is no such utility.

dave