Opening customer balances with new file

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting digger vermont <dv_mlist at verizon.net>:

> Hi derek,
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 13:43 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> You should use the "Close Book" API which will keep the old data
>> around so you shouldn't have to re-enter it.   Note, however, that
>
> The reason I'm starting over from scratch is possible corruption due to
> early G2 from SVN.  If I use the "Close Books" method is there any
> chance of the corruption following along or will it clean it up if
> needed?  It would certainly be easier than re-entering.

OH, If you have corruption from early 1.9, yeah, start over from scratch.

>> this functionality has not been well-tested.   OTOH, you shouldn't
>> be using G2/SVN/1.9x for real data, so...  ;)
>>
>
> But G2 is so much nicer!
>
> Awhile ago it seemed that the G2 format was incompatible with 1.8 so I
> started using just G2.  I think I'll be okay.  I've been manually
> backing up the directory to augment the gnucash backups before opening
> the books on any given day.  My number of entries is not so great that
> recovering from errors though a PITA is not that big a deal.

The format should be fully compatible, provided you dont use any new-in-2.0
features (like budgets).

> thanks
>
> digger

-derek

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