Downgrading To Older Version

[Derek Atkins]

Frank Gore <gore at fpzmedia.com> writes:

> I've been using Gnucash to manage our finances (business and personal)
> for almost a decade. I typically use the Gnucash package provided by
> my distribution, which has been openSUSE over the years. However, my
> recent upgrade to openSUSE 12.1 has been a debacle, especially where
> Gnucash is concerned, so I'm considering migrating to SLED 11 sp2
> instead.
>
> SLED 11 sp2 ships with Gnucash 2.2.7, but the most recent version of
> Gnucash I've been using is 2.4.10. Will my budget files still work as
> expected if try to open them using Gnucash 2.2.x? Is anything likely
> to get corrupted? I really can't afford to lose any of this data, it's
> literally a decade's worth of finances and we rely on it heavily.

Could I recommend you switch to another distro, like Ubuntu or Fedora,
where you can get 2.4.10?

Depending on which features of 2.4.x you have been using, going back to
2.2.x may or may not be possible.

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-derek

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