Hi John, The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used 2.6.x to save to the same location without trouble.
The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\(VerboseFileNameProbably30chars.gnucash) The last successful saves to this directory was by GnuCash 2.6.21, and was: C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash.20190401075914.log (4/1/2019 8:01AM) C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash (4/1/2019 7:59AM) Since I suspected it was a path length issue, I tried saving the file name test.gnucash in the same location, but got the same error. So I went one folder back and tried to save again and it failed the same way. I kept shortening the path folder by folder like this until it did save, which was as follows: C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\test.gnucash Next, I copied the original folders so I could make a test path exactly like the path that causes the error, but with no ampersand, and I still get the the same problem. C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C and D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ fails just like C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ A screen shot of the error https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd8rlgj1kvv0ysn/2019-04-05_18-37-52.png?dl=0 Next, I copied the original folder so I could make a test path exactly like the path that causes the error, but with no spaces in the folder names and no ampersand, and I still get the same problem. *However*, this time, when gnucash tried to display the path in the error message, it got some of it right. A screen shot of that is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3p0agpdlkmzia4/2019-04-05_18-52-26.png?dl=0 Kind regards, Greg On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:14 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > That's interesting. What is the path that's causing trouble with 3.5, and > please remind me what OS you're using. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Apr 6, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There's a problem with 3.5 where it won't save to the usual location > that I > > have saved the file to when I was using 2.6.x For some reason 3.5 has a > > problem with path length. I never had a problem with 2.6.21, I just > > thought I should keep up to the latest in case I wanted to ask for help > > with it. But since it's going to give me trouble, I'll just go back to > > 2.6.21, so long as it will work with the file that was previously saved > by > > 3.5. > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical> > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:09 PM Fross, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> If you don't mind my asking, why are you downgrading? What have you > found > >> that you prefer in 2.6.21? > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 1:26 PM Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've done some work in 3.5 and I'm considering downgrading to 2.6.21. > >>> > >>> Can 2.6.21 work with the xml .gnucash file once it was changed and > saved > >>> by > >>> 3.5? > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> > >>> Greg > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> gnucash-user mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > >>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > >>> ----- > >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > >>> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > > ----- > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
