importing old GnuCash files

[David T.]

It's more likely that you had 2.0.5. That was the stable version out at the time; 2.1.x is an unstable version for development purposes, and you would have been advised against using this.

If it was version 2.0.5, I see that there was an issue with scheduled transactions and upgrades; the instructions in the list back then were to open the file in 2.0.x and remove your scheduled transactions, and then open in 2.2.9. From there, I'd just try opening the file in 2.4.0.

You can get 2.2.9 and 2.4.0 on sourceforge.net; older versions are apparently only available as tar.gz files at http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/, which would probably have to be built from scratch.

If you didn't have any scheduled transactions (if you don't know what I'm talking about, then you didn't), I would try opening the file with 2.2.9 and seeing what happens. 

David

--- On Thu, 2/3/11, Matthew Weymar <matthew.weymar+tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Matthew Weymar <matthew.weymar+tech at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: importing old GnuCash files
> To: "Maf. King" <maf at chilwell.net>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 2:58 PM
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Maf.
> King <maf at chilwell.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 03 February 2011 21:56:37 Matthew Weymar
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I assume - but have to ask - that I cannot open
> these files in the
> > current
> > > version of GC via copy and paste.
> > >
> >
> > Well, depends which version of GC created that file;
> it might be as simple
> > as
> > File->Open.
> >
> 
> Which?
> 
> ~/.gnucash/qif-accounts-map?...
> 
> That didn't work -- but if it would need other files to
> work, that might not
> be definitive.
> 
> Give it a try and report back - don't suppose you can
> remember which
> > version of GC you used on the old machine?
> >
> 
> Whatever was current in June '07 - so 3.5 years ago.
> 
> I've opened the qif-accounts-map in a text editor, but it
> does not include
> any version info.
> 
> I see that v. 2.1.3 was released June 2, 2007. It could
> have been that, or
> 2.1.2 - or earlier, I suppose, but not likely -- and
> obviously not later, ;)
> 
> Is one of those still accessible?... If so, does anyone
> know what
> files I would need to put where in order to open them?...
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthew
> 
> 
> >
> > HTH,
> > Maf.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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