Old file requires newer version?

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Update:
I was able to open FromQuickenFinal.20091117074725.xac. (Not the actual
date of the import from Quicken, which I did years earlier. Probably did
some kind of change to the FromQuickenFinal in 2009.)

I was able to extract a fresh Personals2006 XML from the gzip archive
(using Ark; Archive Manager kept finding an error) and open that. I then
tried opening the gzip archive for Personal2006 from within GnuCash and
that seemed to work also. So maybe it was that some of those older .xac
files had gotten corrupted.

Thanks.

On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 18:01 -0800, John Ralls wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >>>   
> >> 
> >> The file contains a top-level element that the current version of Gnucash doesn't know about, and we blindly assume that it's from a newer, rather than an older, version. 
> >> Unfortunately, in order to use this file with a current Gnucash you'll need to find and install intermediate old versions to upgrade the data to a form that the current Gnucash can understand. This will likely be quite difficult.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> John Ralls
> >> 
> > WHOA!  That's a SERIOUS "bug" situation.
> > 
> > Are you saying that all of us who do not upgrade each and every version are screwed? There are good reasons why working software is left untouched until there is NEED for some new feature, etc.
> 
> Settle down and read the FAQ:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Can_a_new_GnuCash_release_still_read_my_old_data_file.3F
> 
> This is hardly news, it comes up here every few months.
> 
> While the FAQ says "if you have a data file created with GnuCash 2.0.3, you should be able to open this with for example 2.2.5", my impression from previous folks asking that this isn't actually correct, that some compatibility-breaking changes were in fact made between the 2.0 and 2.2 series and 2.2 didn't retain the ability to read the earlier version. 
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
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