[GNC] Upgrading to 5.3 from 2.6.15

[Adrien Monteleone]

That looks like GnuCash thought it wasn't opening your file, but 
starting a new book.

How did you 'start' GnuCash *exactly* after the 4.14 install?

Also note, you can click Cancel on that first screen, or if it doesn't 
show again, and you just get a blank app with either no book or a new 
empty unsaved book, you can open your file via File > Open and 
navigating to where you last saved it.

That should then clear it up and next time you open GnuCash, it should 
remember where your book was and open it for you.

Then do the Check & Repair step once you verify you can open your book.

Regards,
Adrien

On 7/26/23 9:54 PM, larry johnston wrote:
> We started the upgrade process from 2.6.15. The upgrade from 2.6.15 to
> 2.6.21 and from 2.6.21 to 3.11 seemed to go ok but the upgrade from 3.11 to
> 4.14 sees to have hit a snag. When we open 4.14 we get a dialog box that
> states: 'There are some predefined actions available that most new users
> prefer to get started with GnuCash. Select one of these actions from below
> and click the OK button or press the Cancel button if you don't want to
> perform any of them.'
> 
> The options are: Create a new set of accounts
>                               Import my QIF files
>                                Open the new user tutorial
> 
> Since we are not new users we chose Cancel but none of our files were
> available to use.
> 
> We then chose the tutorial but did not find anything that seemed to
> address our problem.
> 
> Is this the normal way 4;14 upgrades? Do we have to set up a new set of
> accounts? Can we import files from our 3.11 backup? Should we reinstall
> 3.11 and try again?