Fwd: gnucash error

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 2 13:18:47 EDT 2008


Yes, it is a parsing error.  GnuCash sees the colon and parses it
as a URL.  Of course it doesn't understand "/home/blah/.gnucash/data/smb:"
as a valid protocol.

-derek

musicman <datakid at gmail.com> writes:

> Hola all,
>
> I reported this yesterday here:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/231612
>
> and it's gone upstream to here
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550232
>
> but I was wondering if anyone else had seen the issue and whether it
> had already been fixed?
>
> The problem occurs when trying to have the GnuCash files on a shared
> drive of some description - looks like a parsing error (my example
> listed below).
>
> cheers
> L.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: musicman <datakid at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM
> Subject: gnucash error
> To: datakid at gmail.com
>
>
> Can't parse the URL
> /home/blah/.gnucash/data/smb:,,hostname,sharename,blahdir,blah,blah,blah,2008finyear.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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