# How to report problems in the distributed version 5.14 ensuring that one can no longer work with jabref?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-report-problems-in-the-distributed-version-5-14-ensuring-that-one-can-no-longer-work-with-jabref/4399 "2024-07-09T16:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![OlafKlein](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/olafklein/32/1148_2.png) [@OlafKlein](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/OlafKlein)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-report-problems-in-the-distributed-version-5-14-ensuring-that-one-can-no-longer-work-with-jabref/4399/5 "2024-07-10T15:59:15Z")

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Dear Christoph,

thanks for your remark. I have successfully tried the snap version from the edge channel. I am just not sure if it is a bug or a feature that the existing preference file seems to be ignored.  
Concerning the preference file: I tried to load a preference file that I had created with JabRef 5.13 into the new jabref version. When i pressed the save bottom in the Preferences windows afterwards the following error message window appeared:

![Screenshot_20240710_174041](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/2X/b/b31d46828fe003d74c72688fa66a2613c589e95b.png)

The content of error message were:  
[errors.txt](https://discourse.jabref.org/uploads/short-url/gqf1T4ldONQm8EFlVoamAbim06z.txt) (12.1 KB)

My preferences file is  
[pref-2024-07-09.xml](https://discourse.jabref.org/uploads/short-url/tIXjnRtPiKurkfAMhg1VbuFJq60.xml) (45.3 KB)

Maybe this is only a problem for me, but this may also be a problem for other users of JabRef who would like to continue to use their old preferences.

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