Opening 1.8.1 file in 1.6.6

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Mar 1 13:37:21 CST 2003


Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3 at msstate.edu> writes:

> > well, that 1 scheduled transaction is sufficient to cause the file
> > not to open in older versions.  Sorry, you're out of luck.
> > You can either upgrade to 1.8 on your Debian system, or you
> > can remove the SX from the data file and hope that helps.  But
> > basically once you move forward, moving back is, uhh, problematic.
> 
> I had assumed it would take some wrangling with the data file. I guess
> the real heart of my question is: what do I need to remove to get it
> to work? Is there a diff somewhere of new format vs. old format?

The core formats are the same, except for the new data objects.

> - Joel

-derek

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