[GNC] Help please. Upgraded from 2.3.4 to 4.12. Worked fine. But database does not load. Win 11.

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 18:57:19 EDT 2022


I thought Gnucash by default kept backups of the database file.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:28 AM Rosepetals <pogichinoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The location of the database file has a number of log files in it if that
> helps.
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 at 7:01 pm, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>
> > Just an observation, from the depths of history...
> >
> > IIRC, 2.3.x I think was a development series; unstable and for bug
> testing
> > and
> > so on, and for "expert" users only  (ie not me)
> >
> > it feels to me that having that running on win11 is unlikely, I'm not
> even
> > sure that 2.3 release were for windows - if they were available then they
> > would have been some of the very first releases of GC on winXP.
> >
> > I am pretty sure that if 2.3.4 was installed by the OP, then the GC
> > database
> > would be in XML not SQL and so the usually auto-created backup files
> > should
> > have been made and might be lurking in a corner of a hard disk?
> >
> > HTH,
> > Maf.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:52:54 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> > > Unlikely, but you might get lucky. (You really don't have *any* backup
> > > at all? Really? You've been using a decades old version of GnuCash and
> > > you never make backups?)
> > >
> > > Note, the GnuCash file, by default unless you changed it, is a
> > > compressed XML file. Uncompressed, it is just plain text and human
> > > readable. (albeit in a markup language) How the file is arranged has
> > > changed over the years, but the raw data should still be there.
> > >
> > > As for 'developing a problem afterwards' it could be that GnuCash is
> > > proceeding with data migration in the background, but it may have
> gotten
> > > hung up on something, or it is just really taking a long time.
> > >
> > > As David noted, running from the command line, or getting a Trace File
> > > might shed some light as to what is going on.
> > >
> > > You *might* get lucky by removing 4.12, going back to 2.3.4, then
> > > proceeding as I outlined, *but* be darned sure to MAKE A COPY of your
> > > file before doing so!
> > >
> > > Honestly, I'd go the route David suggested first to get some output and
> > > then report back here what you get.
> > >
> > > Also, what do you mean by 'blank screen'? Can you take a screenshot and
> > > attach it in a reply? (do not paste in-line, it needs to be attached)
> > >
> > > Maybe do that FIRST, and then once we see what you see, we can advise
> > > further.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Adrien
> > >
> > > On 10/19/22 10:13 PM, Rosepetals wrote:
> > > > I don’t have a backup of the 2.3.4 database. Is there a way to
> recover
> > > > data
> > > > from the current 4.12 database?
> > > >
> > > > Also why does Gnucash work fine after the database upgrade but then
> > > > develop
> > > > a fault afterwards?
> > >
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