[GNC] Error While Saving in GnuCash 3.5 on Win7-64

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/4/19 8:28 AM, Greg Feneis wrote:
> Is there some other gnucash list I should use to report program errors?


Nope.  This should do it.  I don't remember seeing the earlier email so
it may have been missed by others also.


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> Kind regards,
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> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:41 PM Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I just upgraded to 3.5 from 2.6.21.
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>> I've been using 2.6.x for a few years, and never had trouble saving to
>> this directory, but after upgrading to 3.5, I tried to save and it gives me
>> an error message.
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>> "You attempted to save in "can't be displayed" or a subdirectory thereof.
>> This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that director for internal use.
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>> Please try again in a different directory."  (close)
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>> Here's a link to a screen shot of the error message:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1opqys3wxuyw4rv/2019-04-02_17-05-34.png?dl=0
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>> Note that where I wrote "can't be displayed" is actually a strange graphic
>> like when an emoji can't be displayed.  See the screen shot.
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>> It appears when the error message was generated, the file path couldn't be
>> parsed.  This makes me think GnuCash isn't capable of parsing the save to
>> path.  I suspect it's a path length issue.  I tried shorter paths and it
>> worked.  FSR, the new GnuCash seem like it can't save to the same length
>> path that the old series was capable of.
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>> Sorry if this is already a known issue
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>> Kind regards,
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>> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
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