# Opening Database from 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [January 10, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/opening-database-from-2010/6764 "2025-01-10T20:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/opening-database-from-2010/6764/3 "2025-01-10T22:36:17Z")
> [@azemon](#): > > What do you suggest? Should I reinstall an antique version of Gramps to fix the database and then reinstall 5.2.3? If you are eager to get started and do not want to wait for 5.2.4 to be released, then “Yes” you can try a [3.2.6 version](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/3.2.6/) (covering the 3.0.x to 3.2.x versions of Gramps from that era). It still used the [Schema 14](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Gramps). So you can sidestep the issue updating schema 14 to 16. With any approach, the first step is to make a copy of the database folder for Gramps. Because every time the database is touched, the database backends update the file with an update to the connection history. Each experimental touch means a chance of corruption. Once you backup and install version 3.2.6, set the database location (here is the [Database Preferences docs for the 3.2 family](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_3.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Database)), load the tree and export to the [`GRAMPS XML database`](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_3.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees#Exporting_data) format. Gramps 5.2.3 will be able to import that into a new tree in the modern SQLite database schema. ## Link to the stable release archive on SourceForge: > **[Gramps - Browse /Stable at SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/)** > > Gramps, the open source genealogy program --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/opening-database-from-2010/6764)._