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Revision as of 17:44, 17 October 2012
Introduction
If you have an old Gramps XML database generated some years ago, then you may have some difficulties to import it into last stable release.
Gramps-1 did not store event as primary object and did not use bsddb references.
There was some limitations (size, informations, encoding), new Gramps versions tried to fix them.
Solutions
- The safety way is to import it into Gramps-2 and to export this updated database. This will generate a new Gramps XML more compatible for an import into Gramps-3.
- If your operating system does not support Gramps-2 any more as some dependancies has been removed since Gramps-2 (GCONF, gnome-doc-utils, yelp, python-reportlab, etc...) or updated like python libs and related, then you could have a look at Linux Genealogy Live CD archives.
- Also, you may submit your old database on bug-tracker, mark this report as private (will be hidden for non-developers) and a developer will try to help you for updating your database.
Experimental
XML databases generated by Gramps-1 are not lost as they are written into a documented open format.
If a XML/XSL wizard planned to generate a script, here an experimental and partial test, which try to migrate a part of data to an other Gramps XML file, according to last XML DTD.
Event, Repository and Note references are broken because they was not primary objects on Gramps-1. If someone knows how to handle this, then feel free to do changes.