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 <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094704.html> 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 <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094702.html> 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 <https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2021-January/094705.html>.
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