[GNC] How to Upgrade Old GnuCash Version to Current Version

[Jim DeLaHunt]

On 2023-06-08 17:20, flywire wrote:

> A lot of discussion in the mailing list about this subject but there
> doesn't seem to be anything in the docs.
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094704.html
> suggests most of the discussion is misplaced.

I don't read the message by John Ralls at 
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094704.html> 
as saying that most of the discussion about how to upgrade from old 
GnuCash version to new is "misplaced".

In that message, John was replying to a questioner 
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094702.html> 
who had special circumstances: a GnuCash data file created a long time 
ago with an old version, made from an import of an even longer history 
in Quicken, followed by not much activity in the GnuCash data file. The 
specific question was whether it was worth upgrading the old GnuCash 
data file, or if it was better to abandon it and start the import from 
Quicken from scratch.

I note that John's reply has the caveat, "Since you didn't actually use 
GnuCash much….".

Much of the discussion about upgrading data files, created with old 
GnuCash versions, for use with current GnuCash versions is about data 
files which had long and extensive use of GnuCash. It is plausible that 
such data files should follow the careful route of upgrading via each 
final release of a major version of GnuCash, as D. (sunfish62) explains 
at 
<https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094705.html>.

Best regards,
     —Jim