Upgrade, 2.4 to 2.6 creates problems

[John Ralls]

Indeed, 2.6.1 had several problems. But it sounds possible that there’s something amiss with your file that 2.4 lets slide while 2.6 chokes. If 2.6.5 won’t load it, open a bug and attach the trace file [1] to it.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile>


> On Feb 6, 2018, at 7:31 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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