Adrien,
John Ralls provided advice that, because the OP had not used Gnucash much in
version 2.x, he might, in fact, be able to jump directly from that to 4.4. That
advice, as I noted, is non-standard, but may work-- and if it does, then
there's no real problem.
David T.
Original
I think you misunderstood.
No, you should not 'update' your GnuCash installation *with your
existing GnuCash file* straight from 2.x to 4.x!
You have two paths:
1. retain your existing GnuCash file and go through the multi-step
update process outlined in this thread and in the wiki. Then
Brad
It really depends upon the situation.
you originally said you had an old file from an early attempt to use GnuCash
and there had been little importing of data since that time and that that
data was expendable. In this case John's single step process is appropriate.
You can then back
Brad,
My version is the safest, "This is the way that everyone says it should be
done" version.
However, John is one of the core developers of the app, and if he says you can
probably cut corners and just jump ahead, then that might be worth a try. Hey,
if it doesn't work, you can always go
I'm a bit confused as to the best update method. These seem to be
differing methods, incrementally updating GC (3 steps), or jump to 4.4
(1 step) and let it do the data update in one step. Is the JR one
step method reliable for a big file with many accounts?
On 1/8/21 10:15 AM, John
I just went through this process (2.6.21 > 3.0 > 3.10 > 4.4) on my Windows
8.1 PC. I chose to do it now because, hey, it's a new year...time to catch
up. It went very smoothly...no hiccups whatsoever. FWIW, the biggest change
I've noticed so far is that generating a balance sheet went from being
David,
Thanks for clarifying. I agree with all your points--especially about the fine
work of the developers!
David T.
Original Message
From: David Carlson
Sent: Fri Jan 08 18:03:03 EST 2021
To: "D."
Cc: Tfastle , David Reiser via gnucash-user
Subject: Re: [GNC] Best
A last note: during upgrades, check the trace file for possibly important
logs. These are overwritten, hence upgrade messages can disappear easily.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, 9:58 am Tfastle via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> Well, I must
Well, I must chime in.
You all are way over my head now but the thread seems lively and is
entertaining. I think what I will do is save my file in a safe place and
try the update and see what happens and, along the way, learn a little.
Then, maybe I'll understand a bit more of what is being
On 1/8/21 6:03 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Now Linux technology has started to move away from PPA protocols toward
> Flatpack or possibly other alternatives that I still feel need more
> development before I am ready to jump from GnuCash 3.8 to 4.4 or beyond.
> Reading the tales of woe here and on
First, I just know enough about computers to be dangerous. So I am ultra
conservative about going in over my head trying to stay near the (b)leading
edge of technology. Like you I have been using GnuCash since very early in
the 2.something days sometime after it was ported to Windows.
That
David,
I don't understand; could you explain what exactly is taking such a long time
to upgrade? I've been using Gnucash for, like, 15 years, and the upgrade
process (across multiple major versions [I believe I started around 2.0.5 or
so], using multiple installation methods [anyone remember
Years ago Quicken allowed exporting data (in their version of QIF format)
for a limited time interval and/or for one, several or all accounts, but I
do not know if that is still true. They also used to allow simply
exporting your account tree with no transaction data. Good luck!
On Fri, Jan 8,
I too highly recommend this step not be skipped! (if so inclined)
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/8/21 11:28 AM, D. via gnucash-user wrote:
8) Relax, don't worry, have a home brew. (This last directive might not apply
to the current set of activities)
___
Read over John's reply again.
If you want to 'start fresh' then just install 4.4 and then start importing.
I'm not sure if Quicken allows you to export a date range of data. If
so, then following John's advice, export the very first month of data,
then import it into GnuCash. Then export the
Well, I would first like to say thanks for the very thoughtful and
informative replies!
I should have mentioned in my first post that I am not an overly "inner
works of a computer" savvy person and even less so with the inner workings
of software some of that was a bit over my head.
When I first
Tfastle,
I am currently at release 3.8, half way through the process of migrating
from 2.6.xx to 4.4. I can tell you that the migration is very time
consuming and it looks like it is going to be a challenge to take the step
from 3.8 to 4.4 in a Linux OS.
If you are contemplating running GnuCash
Welcome back!
Let me start with the last point first: in my experience, Gnucash's developer
team is deeply committed to compatibility, and works to ensure that upgrades
preserve ALL previous data. Furthermore, the default data storage is XML, which
is text that is human readable, and fully
> On Jan 8, 2021, at 8:53 AM, Tfastle via gnucash-user
> wrote:
>
> A few years back I was going to switch from using Quicken to GnuCash. I
> downloaded and spent a fair amount of time reading about GnuCash and getting
> my Quicken Account imported. For me, it was a bit of a learning curve
A few years back I was going to switch from using Quicken to GnuCash. I
downloaded and spent a fair amount of time reading about GnuCash and getting
my Quicken Account imported. For me, it was a bit of a learning curve and a
lack of time thwarted my effort. I now hope to make the move for good.
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