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==Introduction== If you have an old [[GRAMPS_XML|Gramps XML]] database generated '''4 some years ago''', then you may have some difficulties to import it into last stable release ('''3.1.x''').
Patsyblefebre moved page Old database to Gramps Old database: more meaningful
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'''Gramps-1''' did not store '''[[Events_in_GRAMPSEvents_in_Gramps|event]]''' as primary object and did not use bsddb references.
There was some [[Database_Formats#GRAMPS_1.0_and_earlier|limitations]] (''size, informations, encoding''), '''new Gramps versions''' tried to fix them.
==Solutions==
* The safety way is to import it into '''[http://sourceforge.net/projectprojects/showfilesgramps/files/Stable/2.2.php?group_id=25770&package_id=109309 10/ 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 do does not support '''Gramps-2''' any more as some dependancies has been removed since '''Gramps-2''' (''GCONF, gnome-doc-utils, yelp, python-reportlab, libglade, etc...'') or updated like python libs and related, then you could have a look at [[Linux_Genealogy_CD|Linux Genealogy Live CD]] archives.
* Also, you may [[Using_the_bug_tracker|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.
* related to bug {{bug|6129}} : I downloaded the gramps 2.2.10 on my ubuntu 11.10 and did the following :
$ tar xzvf gramps-2.2.10.tar.gz
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ python src/gramps.py
then
* import the 20060115.grdb ( your grdb file )
* export in gramps xml
You can now load the new created file in your last gramps version. I hope it will work for everybody.
I choosed 2.2.10 because the original file was 20060115 : at this period, gramps was 2.2. or 2.0.
So I used the last 2.2 available version.
If this had not worked, I think I would have tried the last 2.0.11 available version.
==Experimental==
XML databases generated by '''Gramps-1''' are not lost as they are written into a documented open format.
If a XML/XSL wizard have fun planned to generate a script, [[Media:123xsl.gz|here]] an experimental and partial test, which try to migrate a part of data to an other Gramps XML file, according to last [http://gramps-project.org/xml/ XML DTD]. Old Note:''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.'' [[Category:Documentation]][[Category:Developers/Reference]][[Category:Developers/General]]