Mac upgrade, "There was an error parsing the file ..."
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 14 12:09:59 EDT 2010
David Dannemiller <DPDannemiller at earthlink.net> writes:
>> On Jun 12, 2010, at 12:47 PM, M Prindle wrote:
>>
>> With the older versions GC I've also heard that you need to delete the scheduled tasks from the old version and then open it in the new version.
>>
>> Mike
>
> I ran across indications of this is old posts, but also found a post in the gnucash-announce list dated 7/15/2007, emphasis mine:
>
> *Data file notice*: In version 2.1.2 the format for scheduled
> transactions in the data file was changed. Files using the old
> format will be read without problems by this new version, but the
> new version of GnuCash only writes the new format. The new file
> format cannot be loaded by older versions of GnuCash.
>
> So shouldn't GnuCash upgrade the file to the new format?
You're running 1.8, which is really REALLY old. For some reason 2.2.x
can't directly import from 1.8.x; you need to step through 2.0.x before
going to 2.2.x.
Yes, this is a bug, but there are so few people willing to provide their
1.8.x data file in order to fix the bug.
> David Dannemiller
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-derek
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