On 22-4-2011 11:27, Stefan Janse van Rensburg wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I'm using Fedora 14 (32 bit version), LyX 2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14. Upgrading to 
> LyX 2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14, I encountered several problems which forced me to 
> downgrade back to LyX 2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14.

Which problems did you encounter ? We might need to fix these.

If there are really problems introduced after beta3 that make rc3 unusable, 
this is really serious.

> 
> I now, however, have the problem that I cannot open any of my previous 
> documents as LyX complains that "...file is from a newer version of LyX and 
> the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it."
> 
> I have my most important files exported as Lyx 1.6 files, so I can work on 
> them, but I was wondering if there is an easy way for me to convert all my 
> Lyx 2 RC3 files to a format that Lyx 2 Beta 3 will read, without me having to 
> install Lyx 2 RC 3 again.

You can download the lyx2lyx script:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/export/38473/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/lyx2lyx/lyx_2_0.py
and install it in the lib/lyx2lyx directory.

Vincent

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