Greeting!
Try a week version 3, but I still like version 2 feature, want change the file modify by version 3 back to version 2, is there some way to do this?
thank you!
Hi Philip,
I haven’t found an easy way to do that, because there is much more information in Aeon 3 than Aeon 2 can handle. Also, with Aeon 3 you can create events without or with incomplete time/date information, which Aeon 2 then cannot process. Frankly, I would enter the changes in Aeon 2 by hand if there are not too many. But maybe there are some options:
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Events might be transferred via csv export/import. You have to set a date format in Aeon 3 that Aeon 2 can read, and if possible include only what exists in Aeon 2 in the export.
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If you have created a lot of events, characters and locations and relationships that you can’t transfer satisfactorily via csv, there is still the possibility to use the yWriter format as an intermediate step. I have a Python script that converts Aeon 3 projects to yWriter (it works best if all your events are assigned to the narrative). Another Python script synchronizes yWriter projects with Aeon 2 timelines. The programs are not actually made for such a use case, so I can’t promise for sure that it will work for you. In any case, keep backup copies of your Aeon files.
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If all this doesn’t work, you could try the Scrivener synchronization, but unfortunately I don’t know anything about that.
By the way, if you have built a narrative, you can convert it to an ODT document with the aeon3odt extension for LibreOffice.
Would be nice if you could share your experience here.
Good luck,
Peter
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Peter is correct, due to the amount of new features in Aeon Timeline 3, you are unable to open a version 3 file in version 2. So the easiest thing would probably be to do a csv import/export into version 2 to get the bulk of your information into a version 2 file.