Sorry about the links, I posted this path length issues previously and so today I copied from that email and thought the screenshot links would still work. Apparently dropbox expired them.
I don't know about the / VS \. Kind regards, Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:58 AM Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
