[GNC] Upgrading to 5.3 from 2.6.15

[john]

That sounds like the preferences didn't migrate. We had to change the GSettings schema from org.gnucash to org.gnucash.GnuCash to get preferences to work correctly in flatpak. We did that change in GnuCash 4.7, and there's a function that's supposed to transfer your preferences to the new schema.

Can you open your files by navigating to them with File>Open? Have you modified your preferences (via Edit>Preferences) from the defaults enough to motivate you to try to recover them, and if so are you comfortable with using regedit?

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 26, 2023, at 19:54, larry johnston <larryej1953 at gmail.com> 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?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Larry
> 
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 4:22 PM flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 13:31, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah, it's gotten a lot faster since...
>>> 
>> 
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