> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:32, Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
These Dropbox links give 404 errors - “That file isn’t here any more”. > > > > Kind regards, > > Greg Just a thought - could there be a clash of character sets between what Windows expects and what Gnucash delivers? Or a “\” vs “/“ clash? Michael _______________________________________________ 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.
