Help Lost data during upgrade

[Derek Atkins]

Was it 1.4 or 1.6?  That's actually important.  You can tell pretty
easily; 1.6 was XML, but 1.4 was binary.

There have been a few reports of problems importing 1.4 datasets into
1.8 (but importing 1.4 into 1.6 seems to be ok).  If you DO have a 1.4
dataset and are willing to provide it to a trusted developer to make
sure it can be properly read into 1.8, we can try to squash this bug
once and for all and make sure that 1.8.10 doesn't have this problem.

It's up to you..

Thanks,

-derek

"David J. Bakeman" <dbakeman at comcast.net> writes:

> My wife's been using redhat 6.2 for years and we've been using gnucash
> either 1.4.x or 1.6.x not sure because when I recently upgraded her
> computer to fedora core 1 I kept all the data but removed the system
> stuff including gnucash.  (I think it's the one that came with rh6.2
> but I've been unable to figure out what version that was).
>
> So I opened the old account with the version of gnucash that comes
> with fc1 (1.8.8) ran through the setup stuff to say which were stocks
> which were funds etc.  Everything seemed to go fine except for the
> fact that all of the information about number of shares seems to have
> been lost!
>
> So I've been trying to rebuild an older version of gnucash without
> success (things like no db 1.85 support etc. keep getting in the way).
> I guess I'll have to reinstall rh6.2 somewhere so we can see our data
> again.
>
> Is there any other way for me to get the data back?  Would it be
> possible to export it from the old version and read it into the new?
>
>
> HELP!
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