So far, nobody seems to be able to repeat this issue, so we haven't ruled out that it's a failure of my computer that's causing this. So it's probably not worth adding to the bug tracker.
Kind regards, Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 8:10 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > Greg, > > 2.6.21 and 3.x are supposed to be fully file-compatible. Earlier releases > in the 2.6 series may not be depending on what 3.x features you use. > > If you'd prefer to continue the troubleshooting in the bug tracker, file a > bug. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Apr 8, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just a coupe of questions, > > > > 1. Once the working file (xml) is saved by 3.5, does it remain backward > compatible with 2.6.21 in case I want to downgrade? > > > > 2. Should I log this bug in bugzilla? > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Greg Feneis > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:27 AM Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Sorry I missed this yesterday. The language is English (United States), > The Location is United States. The current language for non-Unicode > programs is English (United States) > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Greg Feneis > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 4:33 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed. I just tried C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash. No problem. > > > > What are your Language and Region settings? Have you set LANG and > LANGUAGES in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment? Is > your userid an Administrator? > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > > > On Apr 7, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > John, > > > > > > I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the > Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder, so I tried this > path and file name: > > > C:\Xobpord\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official > Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (117 chars, outside of > Dropbox, Failure!) > > > The error message reads: > > > "You attempted to save in > H[gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash or a subdirectory thereof. > This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that directory for internal > use....Please try again in a different directory. (close). > > > > > > Then I read your email again before starting a reply and realized you > spec'd the home directory, so I tried the following path and file name: > > > C:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Files\Official Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (128 > chars, outside of Dropbox, inside user folder, success!) > > > > > > So, appears with 3.5 I can only have a generous path while saving > within the windows user folder? > > > > > > Things are getting curiouser > > > > > > > > > Kind regards,¯¯ > > > Greg > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:46 PM John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just to completely rule out Dropbox being somehow involved, could you > create the same hierarchy in your home directory, i.e. > c:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\Gnucash Files\ > > > > > > I was able to successfully save > > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash > > > and its log file > > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash.20190407134124.log > > > > > > Regards, > > > John Ralls > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 7, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Greg Feneis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Some more testing on the issue where 3.5 seems to want a shorter > path than 2.6.x did: > > > > > > > > Just now, I exited Dropbox to see if that had something to do with > it, but pretty much the same error for all three path variations, what > worked historically with 2.6.x, no ampersand but some folder names used > spaces, and no ampersand + no spaces. It seemed purely to do with length, > but it doesn't seem to be about total characters. > > > > > > > > With Dropbox back on, here are some more tests: > > > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) > Success! > > > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\GnuCashFiles\test.gnucash > (65 chars) Failure! > > > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the last folder from GnuCashFiles down to > G and still got the same problem > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\G\test.gnucash (54 chars) > Failure! > > > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the previous folder from GnuCash down to > GnuCa, and it also failed even though it was 52 chars, the character count > that seemed to work previously. Also the error message for this is > slightly different. > > > > "You attempted to save in > [gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash or a subdirectory thereof. > This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that directory for internal > use....Please try again in a different directory. (close)." See screen > shot here > https://www.dropbox.com/s/pa3gdy6c2w21x6u/2019-04-07_9-30-31.jpg?dl=0 > > > > This was the actual attempted path: > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCa\G\test.gnucash (52 chars) > Failure! although same char count > > > > > > > > More testing: > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\G\test.gnucash (48 chars) > Failure! > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCand\G\G\test.gnucash (47 chars) Failure! > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCan\G\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > > > > > > If I reduce the number of folders in the path, does the max > character count go up? > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\Gnu\test.gnucash (48 chars) Success! > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) > Success! (confirming results from beginning of this email) > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPath\test.gnucash > (66 chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > (83 chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > (100 chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandDTestEvenLongerPathEvenLongerPathSuperLongPath\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > (145 chars) Success! > > > > > > > > I'm not going to test to failure on this folder count, but it sure > looks like something about GnuCash 3.5 limits the path based on folder > count and path character count. If I use a 5 folder path, max path > character count is 46. If I used a 4 folder path, I've tested up to 145 > characters. > > > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:32 AM 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. 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