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

[Greg Feneis]

The path that 3.5 failed to write to is:

C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash
Files\(VerboseFileNameProbably30chars.gnucash)

The last successful saves to this directory was by GnuCash 2.6.21, and was:

C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash
Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash.20190401075914.log  (4/1/2019
8:01AM)

C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash
Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash
(4/1/2019 7:59AM)

Since I suspected it was a path length issue, I tried saving the file name
test.gnucash in the same location, but got the same error.  So I went one
folder back and tried to save again and it failed the same way.  I kept
shortening the path like this until it did save, which was as follows:

C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\test.gnucash





Kind regards,
Greg Feneis

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:28 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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