[Gramps-users] Old database

[Anthony E. C. <ton...@sb...>]

I have several old databases that the latest version of Gramps  
(3.0.4-1) will not import, generating an error.  They have an  
extension of .gramps, are XML, are from approximately 2004 and if I  
view the file, it says version 1.0.7-1.  I am running Kubuntu 9.04.

This is the error generated:

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106180: ERROR: DbLoader.py: line 306: Failed to import database.
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/gramps/DbLoader.py", line 296, in do_import
     self.uistate.pulse_progressbar)
   File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsDbUtils/_ReadXML.py", line 103, in  
importData
     version_is_valid(xml_file, cl) is False:
   File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsDbUtils/_ReadXML.py", line 2396, in  
version_is_valid
     parser = VersionParser(filename)
   File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsDbUtils/_ReadXML.py", line 2334, in  
__init__
     self.__p.ParseFile(xml_file)
   File "/usr/share/gramps/GrampsDbUtils/_ReadXML.py", line 2340, in  
__element_handler
     self.__xml_version = xmlns.split('/')[4]
IndexError: list index out of range
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Is there any way this can be recovered?

Tony
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