Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.6.15?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Wed, January 4, 2017 7:13 pm, gbguy wrote:
> I'm a long time GnuCash user (Windows 10, XML database).  I've two
> questions
> and haven't been able to find the answers.
>
> 1. Is upgrading to the newer version simply a matter of running the
> gnucash-2.6.15-setup.exe file?  (after doing backups )  No needed manual
> file conversions, etc.?

I don't recall if you needed to step through 2.4 to get from 2.2 to 2.6. 
I think 2.2 -> 2.6 is okay by itself.

Also, you *may* need to File -> Open your data file if it doesn't
auto-open by itself.

Beyond that, yes, you should just be able to run the setup.exe.

>
> 2. Is it worthwhile to consider changing from the XML database to mySQL?

No.

> TIA

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-derek

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