Help Lost data during upgrade

David J. Bakeman dbakeman at comcast.net
Thu Oct 28 12:07:59 EDT 2004


Derek Atkins wrote:

>"David J. Bakeman" <dbakeman at comcast.net> writes:
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>>Well I really would like to help but there is too much sensitive
>>information :<)
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>Was kind of afraid of that.  :(
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>>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?
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>Theoretically, yes.
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>>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?
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>I honestly don't know.  1.6 is OLD OLD software.  I haven't used it in
>years.  1.8 has been the stable version for almost two years, now, and
>I had been using the development version for almost a year before
>that.  I would guess "gtkhtml-1.0" is what you need.  You also will
>need guile 1.4 (or earlier).  And an earlier version of g-wrap.
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>>Should I just give up and reinstall rh6.2 get a 1.6.x version of
>>gnucash and do it that way?
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>Well, I'd go with RH7.3 instead of 6.2, but that's up to you.  ;)
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>But seems kind of a long way around (to me) just to upgrade a data
>file.  Granted, it'll probably get you a working data file sooner, but
>it's not helping the gnucash project to fix this problem.  *shrugs*
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>-derek
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I'd really like to help the project but I just can't let this file out 
:-(   I will try to duplicate the problem with a small subset and if 
that works I'll be happy to provide that :-)

The good news is that opening it on a 7.3  machine seems to have fixed 
the problem.  Thanks for your suggestion!  Gnucash is great!


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