[GNC] GnuCash 3.0 Crashing on "Find Bill"

[John Ralls]

No, I don’t think it is. One could of course set one to install somewhere besides C:\Program Files (x86), but there’s no registry differentiation and I think Windows cares about that.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:43 PM, kstingel <gnucash at kstingel.email> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for those links John
> 
> Is it possible to run both gnucash 2.6 and 3.0 on Windows 10? When I installed 3.0 the installer removed 2.6
> 
> On 2018-04-26 10:46, John Ralls 'jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>' via 33Mail wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 12:12 PM, kstingel <33mail at kstingel.com <mailto:33mail at kstingel.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure if this error has been reported yet but after creating a new file and adding 4 Vendors and 3 Bills,
>>> the "Find Bill" dialog is causing gnuCash (on Windows 10) to crash.
>>> 
>>> This is a new chart of accounts, with two account transactions ... a deposit and and a payment to a vendor which
>>> at the time had no bills posted - I was trying to create an initial credit balance for my first posted invoice, which
>>> appeared to work fine
>>> 
>>> I have completely restarted the PC, to ensure it wasn't a memory issue as I was referring to PDF copies of the invoices
>>> - that didn't seem to help. So far I have only seen the crash when trying to find an unposted Bill so that I could post it.
>>> 
>>> To my knowledge, the only way to access unposted Bills is via the "Find Bill" subroutine, so the crash issue is proving very frustrating
>>> 
>>> EDIT switching from a file (xml) based account book to MySQL has allowed me to use "Find Bill" again
>> 
>> Yeah, there are two related bugs about this:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795031 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795031>
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795040 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795040>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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