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

[David Carlson]

There is another thread under a different topic that highlights the
possibility of interoperability between files used with different releases
that suggests that it may be possible to make a copy of a file used with
release 5.10 or thereabouts and opening it with release 4.8, which might
work.  If I had a need to transfer a lot of transactions, I might try
that.  I was hoping for something along the line of David Cousens'
suggestion of using a script or macro developed by someone with the
knowledge and skill required to create it, or better yet, having an option
in a future release to export transactions in an older csv format, if they
meet whatever limitations that the older format could handle.

Thanks to David and Geoff.  Other ideas are still welcome.

Luckily, I only needed to transfer one transaction so I just rebuilt the
transaction manually one field at a time with the clipboard.



On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
> >
>
>

-- 
David Carlson