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

[Colin Law]

What is the path above the section you have shown?

Colin

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 01:46, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to 3.5 from 2.6.21.
>
> 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.
>
> "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.
>
> Please try again in a different directory."  (close)
>
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Sorry if this is already a known issue
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
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