Linux Mint 21.3. Upgrading from v5,2,4 to v6.0.5, and it is not going well. Made backups in both .gramps and .gpkg formats.

“not going well” doesn’t even hint at the nature of the problem. What is happening?

If you can start Gramps v6, but don’t see your Family Tree, open the Preferences and choose the [Family Tree] tab. Check that the ‘Database path’ field points to your database.

I backed up my v5.2.4 files, but could not figure out how to make the “hardy and portable XML format”. Then installed the v6.0.5 flatpack (yuk). The gramps flatpack attempted to open and convert my database, but seemed to fail. Alas I cannot remember what happened. So, now I do not know what to do t…

I’m no expert but someone will correct me if I’m wrong… Can’t you simply create a new empty tree and then import the back up you made into that tree?

[image] JohnS: but could not figure out how to make the “hardy and portable XML format”. The working file format is a SQLite database file and a cache folder of media thumbnails. (And another cache of map tile files.) In addition, there are lots of .ini files that store configuration choices. …

Thanks for this suggestion. I imported a bunch of stuff, but attempting to load a person or a family produced in an error File “/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gramps/gen/display/place.py”, line 84, in display_event return self.display(db, place, event.get_date_object(), fmt) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^…

The place_format.xml file was not imported to your 6.0 user directory from your 5.2 folder. [image] Problem getting started with Gramps 6.0 Help The code is trying to access a place format that doesn’t exist. Your gramps.ini file was probably upgraded automat…

Thanks for the suggestions. v6.0.5 now seems to be working better, but it still unable to find some information. (1) The links to all media seem to be broken. I changed the Base path for relative media paths to a directory that contains various directories containing media objects. But it doesn’t s…

Alas there are remaining issues with media paths. Most (exception noted below) media do not show reporting a File does not exist error. The path to the media object is obviously wrong. /home/USER/Personal/Genealogy/Personal/Genealogy/Scans should be simply /home/USER/Personal/Genealogy/Scans. I have…

It is a matter of making the base media path set in Preferences plus the path of each media record to complete the full path to each media object. You set the path in Preferences to /home/USER/Personal/Genealogy/. Then the path in the media record will be something like births/filename.jpg. You ca…

[Linux Mint] Ugrading gramps from v5,2,4 to v6.0.5, and it is not going well

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DaveSch October 6, 2025, 11:24pm 8

The place_format.xml file was not imported to your 6.0 user directory from your 5.2 folder.

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[Linux Mint] Ugrading gramps from v5,2,4 to v6.0.5, and it is not going well

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