Downgrading gnucash?

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:05:08PM -0500, Matthew Vanecek was heard to remark:
> Try this: 
> Back up your data file (of course, always!).
> Open your data file in your favorite text editor
> Find the line that says <gnc:book> and delete it.
> Find the line taht says </gnc:book> and delete it.
> Try to open it once again in your 1.6.x version of Gnucash.
> Report results to the list.
> 
> I don't know when the gnc:book tag was added, but private emails on
> another matter suggest that it was post-1.6.x.

it was added post 1.6 by me, I'm sorry I didn't thnk of putting it into
1.6 too ... (and making it a no-op there).

--linas
> 
> HTH.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:58, Jack McKinney wrote:
> > 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 didn't use either, and what it is complaining about is type "book":
> > 
> > $ gnucash mymoney
> > 
> > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> > 
> > ** WARNING **: Unknown type: book
> > 
> > ** CRITICAL **: file sixtp.c: line 515 (sixtp_sax_end_handler): assertion `pdata->parsing_ok' failed.
> > Error: sixtp_handle_catastrophe: parse failed at 
> > 
> > (stack-frame 0x82ce348
> >              (parser 0x81ada40)
> >              (tag (null))
> >              (data-for-children (nil))
> >              (data-from-children)
> >              (frame-data (nil)))
> >   (stack-frame 0x82dd748
> >                (parser 0x82cde90)
> >                (tag gnc-v2)
> >                (data-for-children (nil))
> >                (data-from-children)
> >                (frame-data (nil)))
> >     (stack-frame 0x82dd838
> >                  (parser 0x82ce1d0)
> >                  (tag gnc:count-data)
> >                  (data-for-children 0x82dd850)
> >                  (data-from-children)
> >                  (frame-data 0x82dd850))
> > 
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