Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Incremental updates, yes, but you jumped 4 major versions and skipped those incremental updates. The recommended process (in the wiki FAQ) is to upgrade in steps to each of the final releases of each major release, running Actions > Check & Repair > Check & Repair All upon first opening the

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-17 Thread Kevin Buckley via gnucash-user
On Friday, February 16th, 2024 at 09:00, MegaBrutal wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been using GnuCash between 2015 to 2017 to help to straighten out > my personal finances. ... > > Now I got a situation that I'm looking for certain transactions from > around that time and I remembered that I

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-16 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I would these sorts of things before trying to reinstall older versions of the programs. You really want to make sure that the problem isn't one of these things, because if it is, an older version of the program won't help. Michael D Novack I might be wrong, but I would expect even an old

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-15 Thread David H
If I were you I'd look at installing the Flatpak version and then using a version of gnucash from whenever your file was last updated - details at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak Cheers David H. On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 11:01, MegaBrutal wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using GnuCash between

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-15 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 7:01 PM MegaBrutal wrote: > my old GnuCash > file, untouched since 2017-09-21. To my shock, the modern GnuCash > version that comes with my distro (Ubuntu 23.10) crashes when I try to > open my old file. ... > Maybe I was wrong that I expected some backward

Re: [GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-15 Thread Steve Butler
Can you install version 4.x on your box and try again. Maybe even a 3.x. On Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 17:01 MegaBrutal wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using GnuCash between 2015 to 2017 to help to straighten out > my personal finances. Due to changes in my life, my transaction count > increased

[GNC] Can't open old GnuCash file

2024-02-15 Thread MegaBrutal
Hello, I've been using GnuCash between 2015 to 2017 to help to straighten out my personal finances. Due to changes in my life, my transaction count increased significantly which required more and more time to enter, while I got less free time to do the accounting. Meanwhile, my financial problems