I have seen that others have had the same problem I am having, but I don't see any resolutions. Going to take a stab at this again.
I installed Sage 50 2013 Premium on my home laptop earlier this year so I could learn the program while learning my job (church treasurer) at the same time in the comfort of my La-Z-Boy. :) Updates have been applied and I am now updated to release 2014.2. During this time my files have been maintained on a USB stick.
The time has come to transfer everything to the church's computer. Using the download information sent to us by Sage when we purchased the program, I installed 2013. Some glitches happened, but I managed to get it to update to 2014.2. So I know that I'm running the same versions on both computers.
The problem comes when I try to open the file on my USB stick on the church computer. I receive the following: "data used in newer version of program, update to latest version of program before opening."
Following the advice given by Keith here, I have looked at the data version and it is 21201. Obviously, that doesn't look anything like 2014.2, so I don't know why it's even opening on the laptop.
Insight and help would be greatly appreciated.