Re: [Gramps-devel] opening old databases (again)

2009/8/5 Emrys Williams <emr...@ev...>:
> Tony Caudel was hoping the 3.1.2 Mac gramps would open old databases,
> but apparently it doesn't. I remember reading somewhere that code had
> recently made this work again. What build opens old databases? If I make
> a binary application of the trunk code for Mac, will it open Tony's old
> database? Thanks! Emrys


The change was that old xml is read again, not old databases. I don't
remember if that is in 3.1.x released. Version 1.0.7-1 if from before
my time.
Looking at http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=XML the
XML then was not yet documented, so it is probably needed to install
version 2.0.0 to import this file and export to the format present
GRAMPS can understand.
Note also http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_family_tree
but as said, probably not a grdb file when from that version of
GRAMPS.

He  should mail the file to a developer willing to install an old
version of GRAMPS to make the upgrade. I could give it a try, but
somebody experienced with virtualbox to just install an old linux and
then install gramps 2.0.x is probably better (as 2.0.x is unlikely to
work on linux now due to gtk/python/bsddb/.... upgrades, I could hack
that though ....).

Benny

> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 29, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Emrys Williams wrote:
>>
>>> A packaged version of Gramps for Mac is now available....
>>
>> I was hoping this version of Gramps would open the old xml databases.
>> I have a version made by Gramps 1.0.7-1 back in 2004.  Any chance of
>> this happening any time soon?
>>
>> Tony
>
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