I have a 2.4 database and 2.6 software. Help

[Jamie Tyrrell]

I double clicked the file name rather than use the Open Button and bingo,
I'm in.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Dave H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jamie,
>
> Did you scroll down to the bottom of the http://www.gnucash.org/
> download.phtml downloads page - all the previous versions are available
> for download there including the 2.4.xxxx series if you really want to
> reinstall the version you had previously.  Personally I always go with the
> latest version as I expect it to have more bug fixes/new bits and pieces :-)
>
> I think 2.6.15 should be able to open a gnucash file created by version
> 2.4 so your problem may be more fundamental.
>
> Looking at your other post I would expect your latest file to be named
> "Jamie Data since 2014.gnucash"  NOT something like "Jamie Data since
> 2014.gnucash.20170310080945.gnucash"  ?
>
> Cheers Dave H.
>
>
>
> On 10 March 2017 at 08:41, Jamie Tyrrell <jtyrrell43 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have used Gnucash since 2014. My computer crashed and I now have a new
>> one. I downloaded 2.6. It seems that 2.4 is not available any more.
>>
>> OK, so 2.6 does not recognize the database. It says is is not a url and
>> GnuCash cannot parse the xml. Well, no surprise there.
>>
>> So, is there a way to ask 2.6 to use the non-web based language of 2.4 or
>> some reliable way to convert the 2.4 info to xml. I bet there is.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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