Upgrade from GnuCash 1.8.9 to 2.2.9 corrupts file

[Derek Atkins]

Try removing all your scheduled transactions.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 12:24 pm, jegentom wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I wanted to upgrade from my quite old GnuCash Version 1.8.9 on OpenSuse to
> 2.2.9 on Mac OS-X.
>
> When I open the file it asks my for characterset converision and list all
> the information with, I guess, non US-Ascii Characters, which I have a lot
> since I am German speaking ;-) ... so all the information looks find and I
> press Apply ... Then GnuCash does something with the file and when
> finished
> tries to reoepen it ... the I get an "error parsing the file" error and I
> cannot open the file anymore.
>
> Also when I close and try to reopen, I get the same errror. The new file
> (~
> 350 KB) is significantly smaller than the old one (~ 3.4 MB) ... I also
> tried to upgrade my data on an Ubuntu, but there the same thing happens,
> so
> I guess the problem does not depend on my platform.
>
> Is it possible to upgrade directly from 1.8.9 to 2.2.9? If not which are
> the
> intermediate versions and where can I download them?
>
> If it's possible, what does cause my problem?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Thomas
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