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[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:35:24AM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Murray<m_dorreen at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > After years of problem free use of version 1.8.12, I was forced to
> > upgrade to ver 2.2.9 by a hardware failure(smoke, end of month,

[...]
> 
> What error message are you seeing? From a search of the mailing list
> archives, I believe the 2.2.9 SHOULD be able to read your old data
> file without trouble. You may see a dialog asking what encoding you
> used for your 1.8.12 data file, but I believe this is a one-time
> message (as the data file will be converted to UTF-8 encoding).

I;m not sure this is true. I believe you need to hit a 2.0 version
along the way. There were incompatible file format changes somewhere
along the way. I'm sorry I don't have the specifics. Hope this helps.

A
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