[GNC] How to import transactions from Release 5.10 into Release 4.8

[David Cousens]

David 

I don't think one could expect there to be a setting in Gnucash 4.8 to
import the Export format from later versions of the program  e.g. 5.10
as that Export format did not exist at the time of release of GC 4.8.

The workaround might to be to export the same or a similar set of
transactions from 4.8, compare that to the format of the same or a
similar set of transaction exported from 5.10. Then compare the two
formats and note any differences.

You may be able to get an import by a reassignment of the headers to
different columns in the input file, but if the differences cannot be
handled by that then using a macro/scripted editor to reformat the file
to a format which can be imported may be necessary.

David Cousens

On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 13:44 -0600, David Carlson wrote:
> There is no setting to import transactions from a csv file made by
> release
> 5.10 into a file using release 4.8.
> 
> Is there a work-around?
>