I have a 2.4 database and 2.6 software. Help

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2017 at 23:34, Jamie Tyrrell <jtyrrell43 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I double clicked the file name rather than use the Open Button and bingo,
> I'm in.

In that case you had almost certainly not browsed to the correct file.
Did you also take note of the email pointing out that you have copied
one of the backup versions of your file not the latest?

Colin

>
> 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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