Help Lost data during upgrade

[David J. Bakeman]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>It's up to you..
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Well I really would like to help but there is too much sensitive 
information :<)

However, if I understand what you're saying if I could get a working 
version of 1.6.x I might be able to import it into 1.6.x save it and 
then re load it into 1.8 right?

In that regard what's the best way to build the 1.6.x version (also 
which 1.6.x would work best?)?  I tried to build 1.6.2 and 1.6.8 but 
they both complained about the lack of db 1.85 support.  I was 
unsuccessful in building the old 1.85 db stuff so I tried the db 4 stuff 
with compatability turned on.  This meant I had to go to 1.6.8 since 
that seemed to support the compatibility mode then I had problems with 
pthread being required.  So after I gave up trying to get rid of the 
pthread requirement for db 4 I added -lpthread to LDFLAGS and got past 
the db problem.  Now it complains about gtkhtml not being there.  So 
which old version of gtkhtml do I need?

Should I just give up and reinstall rh6.2 get a 1.6.x version of gnucash 
and do it that way?

>Thanks,
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>-derek
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>"David J. Bakeman" <dbakeman at comcast.net> writes:
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>>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).
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>HELP!
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