4. Yank out the cable connecting the drives to the motherboard :-) If
you never use it....
On 30/08/18 15:09, Arthur wrote:
As Colin suggested, I Googled the error message. [Silly of me not to
look beyond the gnucash archives.] I've summarized the 3 suggested
solutions which I tried, and I also have a thought for consideration
by the developers.
First, I have a Dell XPS from 2010 that came with *4* memory card
reader slots that I have never used (before today). It is running
Windows 7. For every GnuCash 3.x (including a couple of recent 3.2
maintenance releases) I see the following.
If I select "Import transactions from CSV...", I have to cancel 24 no
disk pop-up windows (6 for each slot) to continue. This happens every
time I try to import transactions. I don't want to be a whiner, but it
quickly becomes annoying.
Here's what I tried that worked.
1) Keep media in the drives. I scrounged through a box of old stuff
and found a compact flash card. Inserting that into the reader
eliminated the error for that slot. Woo-Hoo. Only 18 pop-ups to
cancel. I presume if I fill all the slots, the errors will disappear
entirely.
2) Disable each drive that causes a problem. I opened the Device
Manager in the control panel. The item "Disk drives" lists all the
drives on the machine including those for the memory cards. Disabling
a drive eliminates the error for that drive. If I disable every
memory card drive, all the pop-ups are eliminated.
3) Hack the registry. Go to the registry entry
"Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows"
The default value of of the DWORD "ErrorMode" is "0". Change
"ErrorMode" to "2". Pop-ups gone. The following link gives more
explanation
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/124873/disabling-system-hard-error-message-dialog-boxes
I pasted the following advice from that page.
"To run an unattended server, use mode 2. The default value is 0."
The implication being one will have to make a visit to the previously
unattended server to click on the pop-ups in the event of an error
since the server will hang until they are cleared.
Here's my humble thought for consideration by the developers. If I'm
reading the documentation correctly (a big if), the state of ErrorMode
can be controlled programmatically on a per process basis via the
Windows API. I think it might solve the problem if sometime shortly
after Gnucash starts, it calls "SetErrorMode(SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX)".
Below is a link to the description of the Windows function
SetErrorMode().
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms680621(v=vs.85).aspx
Assuming it works, perhaps you would consider adding that to the
Windows port?
Regards,
-Arthur
On 8/23/2018 3:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
Googling for that error message finds lots of hits. It seems to be
do do with having a drive that windows thinks is there but actually
isn't. Something like that anyway. There are some solutions offered.
Colin
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 04:39, jeffrey black
<beastmaster...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 8/22/2018 1:43 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Were either of you at any time storing your GnuCash files on an SD
card?
If so, I’d suggest using a card to load the file, then doing a Save
As elsewhere (with the card still in the drive). Then close and
re-open GnuCash to load from the new location. THEN Safely Eject
and remove the SD card.
Otherwise, some sort of bug is at play.
Regards,
Adrien
On Aug 22, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Mike stagl <m_st...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I have the same issue on Windows 7 and GnuCash 3.2, and I believe
its because I have several SD card readers on my machine and no
cards installed in them.
I haven't looked into a work around yet, but I agree its highly
annoying.
I figure I'll need to uninstall my SD card readers in order to
stop the alerts.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Mike
________________________________
From: Patrick Murez <patrickrua...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:34 AM
To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org
Subject: [GNC] No Disk error
Dear all I want to report a problem already submitted in this
mailing list
with no answer so far:
Hi!
I am starting over with gnucash, and thought I'd do a clean
re-install.
Note, I am on windows, and have removed all the gnucash files I could
find before installing 3.1.
However, now I am getting an annoying error message every time I
try to
look at the preferences, as well as when I do "save as":
Gnucash.exe - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive
\Device\Harddisk1\DR1.
I have the options Cancel, Try Again and Continue. Try Again just
pops
up the message again, so do the other two too. However, if I click
enough times on Cancel or Continue, the message goes away.
Note, when I change something in Preferences, that change stays
when I
quit and restart.
This is quite annoying, and if anybody could shed some light on
what has
happened and how to get rid of said message, I'd be very happy.
Karin
your help will great.
Thanks
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I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest it is a Micro$oft
"upgrade" problem. My home Winoze server is up 24/7 (yes I know, ughh
run a real os ), barring power outages out here in the sticks.
I do not know how many updates my computer installed since its last
reboot but; I do know that I have had trouble for the last week
accessing usb drives. Part of the time they exist and part of time
they
don't according to windoze.
Not much help but; a little more information.
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