upgrade from 1.4 to 2.2

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

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Quoting Harry Hochheiser <hshoch at gmail.com>:

> thanks, Derek. I don't suppose there's any way to get a version of 1.8
> that runs on windows? I hate to tell you how old my linux distribution
> is :-)

Unfortunately no, there's no version of 1.8 that runs on Windows.
Indeed, 2.2 is the first version to run on Windows!
If that's where you are and you cannot find an intermediary to
run 1.8 then I'm afraid you're SOL.  I mean, 1.6.0 was released
7 years ago, and 1.8.0 was released 5 years ago.

I'm afraid to think about how many security holes exist in your
system if you're seriously running a 7+ year old system!

> damn, but your email looks familiar...

Could be.  I got to MIT in '89.

> harry
> MIT '89

-derek

> On Dec 16, 2007 8:53 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Harry Hochheiser <hshoch at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > I'm trying to go from a _very_ old version of gnucash (1.4) to 2.2,
>> > and am desperately seeking help in moving my data. Is there any way
>> > that I can get transfer my data from 1.4 to 2.2? Barring that, is
>> > there any way I can get the 1.4 output in human-readable form?
>>
>> You'll need to use an intermediary version like 1.8 in order to
>> read the 1.4 data.  That nearly decade old data format was
>> obsoleted years ago and I believe it was ripped out (although I'm
>> not 100% sure about that).  Still, your BEST bet would be to backup
>> the data file, then open it in 1.8, then "Save As" to save it out
>> as XML, and then you should be able to load it into 2.2.
>>
>> Good luck, and in the future I recommend you update more frequently
>> than once a decade.
>>
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> > Harry
>>
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>> -derek
>>
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>>
>



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       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