Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[Adrian Sutton]

Thanks for the help, this sounds like the right solution. However, not had a
chance to check it, as we are about to going on holiday. When we are back
I'll have a go at it.

Adrian 

-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user-bounces+adriansutton97=gmail.com at gnucash.org
[mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+adriansutton97=gmail.com at gnucash.org] On Behalf
Of Derek Atkins
Sent: 24 July 2013 17:45
To: LOOPING, Richard
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Problem with saving to NAS Drive

"LOOPING, Richard" <info at looping.nl> writes:

> I had exactly the same problem as the original poster, and seems not 
> many Windows users here:
>
> The open/save dialog box in gnuCash does not have the option to browse 
> network, unlike the native Windows dialog box. This is a bit 
> confusing.

Complain to GTK; it's their dialog.

You *may* be able to type the full path:  \\host\share\....
But I suspect you wont be able to browse to it.

> To open/save to a network drive, you first need to "mount" the drive 
> (so it has a drive letter).  Only then will it show up in the list on 
> the left.
> It means you need to "mount" the drive before using the dialog box, 
> eg. using Windows Explorer. It that can be done while gnuCash is 
> running, but not from within gnuCash.

Right.  This is the best option.

> I think it is too much work for the developers to change the dialog 
> box to native... I mean: once you are used to it, its no problem.

Yeah, this isn't going to happen.  GnuCash is a Gtk Application, not a
"Native Windows" application.  If you get the Gtk to fix their File Open
dialog then GnUCash will automatically get the improvement.  So you should
file a bug report with them.  Hopefully they wont ignore you.

> Richard

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-derek

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