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

Frank H. Ellenberger frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 01:43:03 EDT 2019


Am 04.04.19 um 17:28 schrieb Greg Feneis:
> Is there some other gnucash list I should use to report program errors?
>

Yes, Greg,
read https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla for the details.

BTW: Next time instead of hijacking other threads start a new one. ;-)

Regards frank


>
> Kind regards,
>
> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:41 PM 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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