reading very old (1.6.8) formats

[Derek Atkins]

Rob Latham <rob at terizla.org> writes:

> I came across an old backup from october 2002.  I'm a little curious
> about the gnucash file I found, but of course gnucash 2.4.10 does not
> know what to make of this old file. 
>
> Is my only recourse to build gnucash-1.6 -- and all it's dependencies?

You can try 1.8.  It should be able to read a 1.6 datafile.

While we *try* to maintain backwards compatibility, we tend to only
really test ~1 major release back (e.g. 1.6 -> 1.8, 1.8 -> 2.0, 2.0 ->
2.2, etc).

> ==rob

-derek

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