Upgrading from 2.3.x to 2.4

[Rafferty Uy]

IT WORKS! hahaha this is great!!!

Do we have the ER diagram anywhere?


Rafferty

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Rafferty Uy <rafferty.uy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool!!! I just realized that my version is not 2.3.x but 2.2.8 0_0
> anyhow, i'm going to try anyway. I'll install 2.2.9 first, open and save
> the data, then install 2.4 (just to be sure)
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> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
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>> On Dec 26, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Rafferty Uy wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Just before I install 2.4, I have a few questions.
>> > Can I open my 2.3.x data in 2.4? Will it automatically upgrade my data
>> and
>> > move it to the 2.4 format (which I understand is in SQL)?
>>
>> The default storage format for 2.4 is still an XML file, and there are no
>> changes between 2.2.9, all of the 2.3.x series, and 2.4, so you have nothing
>> to worry about as long as you are using that.
>>
>> There were data losses in the SQL backends to online banking setup and
>> Bayesian transaction matching (and perhaps other places that nobody noticed)
>> in all versions before 2.3.15, and several format changes between 2.3.15 and
>> 2.4.0. If you migrated from XML to SQL before 2.3.15, you should do it over
>> and re-enter all transactions (no, there's no easy way to do this right
>> now). If you migrated after 2.3.15, you should backup your database, load
>> it, and immediately do a "save as" so that everything is saved in the latest
>> format. The next release will do that automatically every time there's a
>> database change that requires it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
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