'No such file or directory' error while trying to save a report

[Максим Кобєлєв]

Michael, if I understood right, then no - it's not setting the Windows
variable, but just a GnuCash variable that is read each time the
application is started.

Because the solution worked for me without restarting Windows.


2013/2/6 Michael Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com>

> This is setting a Windows environmental variable, right? They are set
> the next time the environment is called. So it should have just
> happened.
>
> Easy test would be to log out and log back in, and try again.
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Geert Janssens
> <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > On 06-02-13 18:00, Максим Кобєлєв wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks, Geert!
> >>
> >> I tried to add this at the end of the enviroment file:
> >>
> >> # Added by Maksym Kobieliev
> >> HOME=D:\MAINDOCS\my_configs\GnuCash
> >>
> >> and restarted GnuCash, but nothing changes, and the errror message stays
> >> the same:
> >> "Could not open the file C:\Users\Максим\.gnucash\saved-reports-2.4. The
> >> error is: system-error - No such file or directory".
> >>
> >> It looks like GnuCash did not recognize the new enviroment value.
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > I'm not sure. I never tried this with an absolute path. Perhaps there is
> an
> > issue internally when converting from windows notation to gtk notation.
> >
> > With the changed path, did gnucash create directories in
> > D:\MAINDOCS\my_configs\GnuCash ?
> > Is there for example a .gnucash, .gconf, .gconfd directory in there now ?
> >
> > And what happens if you use double backslashes, like this:
> > HOME=D:\\MAINDOCS\\my_configs\\GnuCash
> >
> > Geert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/2/6 Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be
> >> <mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be>>
> >>
> >>     On 06-02-13 16:45, Максим Кобєлєв wrote:
> >>
> >>         Thanks for replying!
> >>
> >>         Could you please direct me on where the GnuCash environment
> >>         file is located
> >>         and how is it called?
> >>
> >>     The file is called "environment" and can be found in
> >>     <path-where-you-have-installed-gnucash>\etc\gnucash
> >>
> >>     For example, the default location on an English Windows XP is:
> >>     c:\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment
> >>
> >>
> >>         Also, is it possible that this problem will be solved in
> >>         future releases? I
> >>         have already posted a bug for this:
> >>         https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693034
> >>
> >>     Strictly speaking this is most likely not a bug in gnucash but in
> >>     guile, an external library used by gnucash. Ideally this should be
> >>     fixed in guile after which it will also be fixed in gnucash
> >>     automatically. Perhaps it can be fixed directly in gnucash instead
> >>     by not depending on guile for loading and saving the files. I fear
> >>     that will require a rather large code rewrite though, so it may
> >>     not happen soon.
> >>
> >>         My GnuCash version is 2.4.11
> >>
> >>     Geert
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