Downgrading gnucash?

Jack McKinney jackmc-gnucash at lorentz.com
Mon Sep 1 23:20:16 CDT 2003


Big Brother tells me that Benoit Gr?goire wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:12, Jack McKinney wrote:
> >     In order to run gnucash-1.8.4, I had to upgrade my system from Debian
> > woody to Debian unstable.  Unfortunately, this makes my system way too
> > unstable.
> >     So, I have reinstalled my machine with Debian woody, which means that
> > gnucash is back to 1.6.6.  When I try to open my gnucash file, it complains
> > that it is corrupt, presumably because it has 1.8.4 specific entries in it.
> >     Is there a way to convert my 1.8.4 file back to 1.6.6?
> 
> No, the file format is identical, except for scheduled transactions and the 
> business features.  If you used any of those, you are out of luck, unless you 
> manually try to remouve them from the xml file.

    I am not using either feature.  However, opening my 1.8.4 file with
1.6.6 produces a plethora of parsing errors.
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