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

[Adrien Monteleone]

Agreed, that should be in the core Documentation. But of course, someone 
is going to have to write it.


Maybe file a documentation bug for tracking?

I'd think too, that at least for now, a link in the Read.me included 
with each release to the upgrading procedure on the Wiki would be nice. 
(that doc covers 'installation' so I would expect to find 'upgrading' 
there too.)


Regards,
Adrien

On 6/8/23 9:17 PM, flywire wrote:

If you follow the upgrade path, the recommended method is...


OK, where is that documented? If the current version of GnuCash won't work
with older data file versions it should display an error message without
opening the file.


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

[David T. via gnucash-user]

I've updated that section now. 

⁣David T. ​

On Jun 8, 2023, 11:54 PM, at 11:54 PM, David Cousens  
wrote:
>Try the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation#Upgrading. Not
>exactly
>extensive enough though.
>
>On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 12:17 +1000, flywire wrote:
>> > If you follow the upgrade path, the recommended method is...
>> 
>> OK, where is that documented? If the current version of GnuCash won't
>work
>> with older data file versions it should display an error message
>without
>> opening the file.
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Re: [GNC] How to Upgrade Old GnuCash Version to Current Version

[David Cousens]

Try the wiki https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Installation#Upgrading. Not exactly
extensive enough though.

On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 12:17 +1000, flywire wrote:
> > If you follow the upgrade path, the recommended method is...
> 
> OK, where is that documented? If the current version of GnuCash won't work
> with older data file versions it should display an error message without
> opening the file.
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Re: [GNC] How to Upgrade Old GnuCash Version to Current Version

[flywire]

> If you follow the upgrade path, the recommended method is...

OK, where is that documented? If the current version of GnuCash won't work
with older data file versions it should display an error message without
opening the file.
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Re: [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 
 
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 
 
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 
.


Best regards,
    —Jim
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[GNC] How to Upgrade Old GnuCash Version to Current Version

[flywire]

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.
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