Mac upgrade, "There was an error parsing the file ..."

[David T.]

You can find tarballs for older versions of Gnucash at:

http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/

Unfortunately, you'd have to compile that for yourself, and I can't really help you there. I used to use Fink to install Gnucash on OS X, but I don't know how you'd install the older version using Fink. Macports is another option, although again, I don't know how you'd install the older version. 

This all reminds me to send out a BIG ongoing "Thank you" to John Ralls, who has made it possible for OS X users simply to download the big bad Gnucash application disk image and install it all in one easy step.

David

--- On Sat, 6/12/10, David Dannemiller <DPDannemiller at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: David Dannemiller <DPDannemiller at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Mac upgrade, "There was an error parsing the file ..."
To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "M Prindle" <mprindle at pobox.com>
Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 3:34 PM

On Jun 12, 2010, at 1:41 PM, David T. wrote:
You will also want to read through

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Can_a_new_GnuCash_release_still_read_my_old_data_file.3F


The section "Major Releases" covers going from (e.g.) 1.8.12 to 2.2.9 and notes that one would open in a 2.0.x version before going to 2.2.9.

David

Thanks for the link to the FAQ.  I looked in the downloads area, but didn't see anything older than 2.2.0.  Where can I obtain 2.0.x, preferably pre-built for Mac or Linux?
David Dannemiller