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

[Ronal B Morse]

This probably doesn't have anything to do with your issue, but I've 
never been a fan of spaces in paths/filenames.  Back in the olde days it 
wasn't allowed. I gather that's changed, but it still strikes me as bad 
juju.

I'm a Linux guy and even though I guess we can use spaces we have to 
delimit them in quote marks, so it's just easier to forgo the space or 
use an underscore character as a separator instead.

Windows should be able to handle file path statements of 247 (or 
thereabouts) characters. I don't thing the length of the string is the 
problem.

Ron Morse

On 4/4/19 2:34 PM, Greg Feneis wrote:
> 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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