Wont load (appears to be from a newer version) error

[Derek Atkins]

Hmm, that's odd.  If the file looks like XML then I don't know why gnucash would
complain that it's "too new".  The only thing I can think of is that the file
got corrupted somehow.

-derek

Quoting "James W Eanes Jr." <jweanes at erols.com>:

> I would have to say no. I didn't even know gnucash could compress files. 
> I did open some of the files with kate (a text editor) a good portion 
> was readable and look like entries I made. But I didn't see anything 
> that looked like versioning info though I only looked at the begining.
> Jamie
> 
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> >Um, thanks, but that has no relation to whether or not you've told
> >gnucash to compress the data files..
> >
> >-derek
> >
> >"James W Eanes Jr." <jweanes at erols.com> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The files are in my home directory as gnucash wrote them. The partition 
> >>is EXT3.
> >>Jamie
> >>
> >>Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Have you been compressing your data file?  If so you might try
> >>>manually gunzipping your data file and loading that...
> >>>
> >>>-derek
> >>>
> >>>"James W Eanes Jr." <jweanes at erols.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I tried to open gnucash and it stoped with an error message that
> >>>>said "This file/URL appears to be from a newer version of
> >>>>GnuCash. You must upgrade your version of GnuCash to work on this
> >>>>data" I had saved and closed gnucash like I have always done before
> >>>>the prevous time. I tried to open all the  *.log and *.xac with the
> >>>>same results. I was using version 1.8.9 on Fedora3 x86_64 I
> >>>>upgraded to version 1.8.11 using Frdora rpm. The results were the
> >>>>same. Help how can I get my data back.
> >>>>Jamie
> >>>>_______________________________________________
> >>>>gnucash-user mailing list
> >>>>gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>>>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>gnucash-user mailing list
> >>gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> 


-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available