Hi, I've managed to get my old FreeBSD box running again, so that I can compare the differences between 1.8.9 and the current version.
Basically: my 1.8.9 accounts are read fine by the current version on Ubuntu (2.2.4), but lots of data gets dropped when I load them into the current version on Windows (2.2.5). The symptoms appear to be that a few accounts (5 out of about 25) have had all their transactions dropped, which causes the account totals to differ on some other accounts (but I think that all transactions not involving the affected accounts are OK). I can't see an obvious pattern to which accounts are not imported correctly. I'm not going to investigate any further, since I can now use the Ubuntu version (thanks to the quite nifty Sun VirtualBox). If anyone wants to take a look at this, please get in touch with me. Thanks for all your help, Rich Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Richard Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > >>>I used gnucash for quite a while on FreeBSD, using version 1.8.9. > >>> > >>>I'm trying to upgrade to the current version, but it seems to drop a load > >>>of my data when importing the old accounts file. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>What do you mean by this? What gets "dropped"? GnuCash shouldn't > >>drop data, but also there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8 > >>to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release. It SHOULDN'T be a > >>problem, because the XML format doesn't have a lot of differences. > >> > >> > > > > What I mean is that some account totals are different in 2.2 to what > > they were in 1.8, and quite a few line items don't appear in the > > affected accounts. > > What account totals are different? > Have you looked in those accounts to compare what you see from before? > > > It seems like some of the transactions just haven't been loaded. > > I doubt that they are not loaded. That seems pretty far fetched. > > > I'm not 100% certain that there isn't just a new filter or something > > which is causing some transactions to be hidden (but why would that > > affect the totals?). > > That is true. Do you have multiple currencies? Stocks? > > >>> 2) How do I build gnucash from source on ubuntu "heron"? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>apt-get build-dep gnucash > >> > >> > > > > Yes, I've done that, and it did install loads of packages. However, I > > still get "Unknown library `print`" from "gnome-config --libs print" > > > > Sorry for not mentioning this straight away, but I'm trying to build > > the 1.8.9 release, because my plan was to double check the differences > > in behaviour, and then compare the code which loads the data between > > the two. > > OOOOHHHHH!!!!! You didn't say you wanted to build 1.8! That's a > COMPLETELY different animal. > > > Is it still possible to build 1.8.9? Do you think that the "unknown > > library" issue is due to trying to build too old a version? > > I have no idea. It requires a complete Gnome-1 build environment, > which probably isn't available anymore. > > > I haven't yet tried to build 2.2, but I'll have a go tonight. > > > > > > Are you running ubuntu? Does "gnome-config --libs print" work for you? > > If so, can you determine which package provided the printConf.sh file > > in /usr/lib (this is what "gnome-config --libs print" defers to, I > > think). > > Nope, I am not running Ubuntu. And Fedora 7 doesn't have Gnome-1 > anymore. > > >> there has not been a lot of testing going from 1.8 > >> to 2.2 without going through the 2.0 release. > > > > I could try loading the accounts through 1.8 -> 2.0 -> 2.2, if you > > think that would help? > > It might? > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Rich > > -derek > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
