Upgrade, 2.4 to 2.6 creates problems

[David Carlson]

Eric

It is really taxing my brain to remember the early days of release 2 .6 but
it is a good guess that 2.6.1 was not a good release.

Try going to 2.6.5 as John suggested.

David C



On Feb 6, 2018 9:13 AM, "Eric Rempel" <egrempel at gmail.com> wrote:

I am using 2.4.15. I loaded 2.6.1 and it will not open an up-to-date or
complete file of my data. Fortunately when I go back to 2.4 everything is
fine.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 5 February 2018 at 7:50, John Ralls said:
>
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 5, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Eric Rempel <egrempel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been using Gnucash 2.4 for some 5 years on my Windows 7 system.
> > > I'm very happy with it. Over the weekend I upgraded to 2.6.19. 2.6
> would
> > > not open an up-to-date data file, and when I tried to print a report,
> > > the application froze. I have been able to re-install 2.4 and now and
> > > everything is working as before. I'm happy. I would like to upgrade to
> > > 2.6 but am now afraid. What did I do wrong?
> >
> > While we try to maintain file compatibility through a series we don’t do
> > much in the way of back-testing and some things may drift over the
years.
> > I suggest that you upgrade in steps, perhaps 2.6.5-> 2.6.10->
> > 2.6.15->2.6.19. All of the installers are available on Sourceforge:
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/
> > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/>
>
> I am currently using 2.4.12. I have a PortableApps copy of 2.6.17 which
> opened my (2.4.12) file just fine last time I tried it.
>
>


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