The oldest release still on SourceForge is 2.2.0 and it includes a Windows setup.exe; the oldest unstable release is 2.3.0 and it does not, but all from 2.3.2 do have a setup.exe. The first commit to gnucash-on-windows was on 25 August 2006, not quite a year before, and the first announcement of a setup.exe being available is for 2.1.1 on 28 April 2007.
Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 20, 2022, at 1:00 AM, Maf. King <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > > Just an observation, from the depths of history... > > IIRC, 2.3.x I think was a development series; unstable and for bug testing > and > so on, and for "expert" users only (ie not me) > > it feels to me that having that running on win11 is unlikely, I'm not even > sure that 2.3 release were for windows - if they were available then they > would have been some of the very first releases of GC on winXP. > > I am pretty sure that if 2.3.4 was installed by the OP, then the GC database > would be in XML not SQL and so the usually auto-created backup files should > have been made and might be lurking in a corner of a hard disk? > > HTH, > Maf. > > > > On Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:52:54 BST Adrien Monteleone wrote: >> Unlikely, but you might get lucky. (You really don't have *any* backup >> at all? Really? You've been using a decades old version of GnuCash and >> you never make backups?) >> >> Note, the GnuCash file, by default unless you changed it, is a >> compressed XML file. Uncompressed, it is just plain text and human >> readable. (albeit in a markup language) How the file is arranged has >> changed over the years, but the raw data should still be there. >> >> As for 'developing a problem afterwards' it could be that GnuCash is >> proceeding with data migration in the background, but it may have gotten >> hung up on something, or it is just really taking a long time. >> >> As David noted, running from the command line, or getting a Trace File >> might shed some light as to what is going on. >> >> You *might* get lucky by removing 4.12, going back to 2.3.4, then >> proceeding as I outlined, *but* be darned sure to MAKE A COPY of your >> file before doing so! >> >> Honestly, I'd go the route David suggested first to get some output and >> then report back here what you get. >> >> Also, what do you mean by 'blank screen'? Can you take a screenshot and >> attach it in a reply? (do not paste in-line, it needs to be attached) >> >> Maybe do that FIRST, and then once we see what you see, we can advise >> further. >> >> Regards, >> Adrien >> >> On 10/19/22 10:13 PM, Rosepetals wrote: >>> I don’t have a backup of the 2.3.4 database. Is there a way to recover >>> data >>> from the current 4.12 database? >>> >>> Also why does Gnucash work fine after the database upgrade but then >>> develop >>> a fault afterwards? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
