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

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Greg,

It was "hijacked" in the sense that you seem to have started it by replying to 
John Ralls' reply on the "help lost data file" thread. So my mail client did 
hide your message in that thread. Apparently that also happened for Frank.

Of course I can't *know* what you did exactly. It just *looks* like this is 
what you did: take an existing message, hit reply (or reply to list/all), 
change subject and body, send. That would cause such a message to end up 
hidden in the original thread.

In any case I also didn't immediately see your message.

Regards,

Geert

Op vrijdag 5 april 2019 15:56:24 CEST schreef Greg Feneis:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> I started this thread. I've been driving this thread since I started it.
> What made you think I hijacked?
> 
> I was aware of bugzilla, but it's not an email list.  I had some concern
> that the process had changed from when I last monitored this list many
> months ago.  Previously an error like this gets discussed, and someone, a
> developer or person who works more closely with the project, asks the
> reporter to log it to bugzilla.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:43 PM Frank H. Ellenberger <
> 
> frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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