Crash of 2.2.9 after install of 2.3.9

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 16 February 2010, trythis wrote:
> Wonder if you made a copy of the old one before you opened it in the new
>  one? I may be stating the obvious, but
> The 2.3.9 uses some different database systems, so it probably saved in
>  some sql  format, a different database altogether from the XML file format
>  in 2.2.9 if I understand correctly. It looks like it can use both and
>  maybe you can save it as XML database, then you should be able to reopen
>  in 2.2.9
> 
> I Tried to test this theory, but I cant open Gnucash 2.3.9. It crashes
> before the file finishes opening.
> 
> Kage_ wrote:
> > I installed 2.3.9 tonight to see the changes and test it out.  I opened
> > my XML data file in 2.3.9, closed it, and then opened it in 2.2.9, but
> > when it gets to business-gnome 2.2.9 crashes with Unspecified Fatal
> > error encountered, aborting.  The error is a C++ error in
> > gnucash-bin.exe.
> >
> > If I open 2.3.9 it launches with no errors.
> >
> > My main install is in program files\gnucash and 239 is in program
> > files\gnucash239.
> >
> > Running XP SP3
> >
> > Mike
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Hi,

I am not sure if it is safe to install GnuCash 2.2.9 and 2.3.x at the same 
time. Even though they are installed in different paths, there is only one set 
of registry keys that will be used by both versions. I wonder whether due to 
this your 2.2.9 tries to use data from 2.3.9.

You can try to uninstall both versions and then reinstall 2.2.9 and see if 
that works again.

Geert