Well, I upgraded to "Rebuild of the GnuCash 3.5 Windows Bundle", but GnuCash still gives me the strange error when I try to save to the usual location where I've saved in the past successfully with 2.6.x.
Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:42 PM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <jra...@ceridwen.us> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> 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 <jra...@ceridwen.us> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> 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 <jra...@ceridwen.us> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> >> 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 <jra...@ceridwen.us> >> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> >> 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 <mich...@fross.org> >> 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 <mfen...@gmail.com> >> 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 >> > > > >>> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > > > >>> 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 >> > > > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> > > > > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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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