Gnucash XML file compatibility between 2.6 and 2.4

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 8 10:02:24 EST 2014


John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Jan 7, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Mon, January 6, 2014 11:02 pm, Alun Champion 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?
>> 
>> Probably used a new-in-2.6 feature?
>
> That puts up a different error message about being feature-incompatible.
>
> Colin’s guess about the compression bug is more likely.

Ah, yes, I forgot about that issue.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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