Gnucash XML file compatibility between 2.6 and 2.4

[Colin Law]

On 7 January 2014 04:02, Alun Champion <alun at achampion.net> wrote:
> I had both 2.4.13 and 2.6 installed.
> I was flipping between them successfully on the same file but now I'm
> getting "There was an error parsing the file", when trying to open the
> file in 2.4.X.
> Any idea what I've done in 2.6 that's made the file unreadable in 2.4?

I don't know about the file compatibility between 2.6 and 2.4 but it
is possible you have hit the unzip bug that makes some compressed
files unreadable in 2.4.13.  Try saving the file from 2.6 as
uncompressed xml and see if you can read that in 2.4.

Colin