[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Greg Feneis mfeneis at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 11:32:31 EDT 2019


Hi John,

The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64.  Previously used 2.6.x to
save to the same location without trouble.

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 folder by folder like this until it did save, which was
as follows:

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


Next, I copied the original folders so I could make a test path exactly
like the path that causes the error, but with no ampersand, and I still get
the the same problem.

C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C and D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\         fails
just like   C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\


A screen shot of the error
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd8rlgj1kvv0ysn/2019-04-05_18-37-52.png?dl=0


Next, I copied the original folder so I could make a test path exactly like
the path that causes the error, but with no spaces in the folder names and
no ampersand, and I still get the same problem.  *However*, this time, when
gnucash tried to display the path in the error message, it got some of it
right.

A screen shot of that is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3p0agpdlkmzia4/2019-04-05_18-52-26.png?dl=0



Kind regards,

Greg




On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:14 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> That's interesting. What is the path that's causing trouble with 3.5, and
> please remind me what OS you're using.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Apr 6, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > There's a problem with 3.5 where it won't save to the usual location
> that I
> > have saved the file to when I was using 2.6.x  For some reason 3.5 has a
> > problem with path length.  I never had a problem with 2.6.21, I just
> > thought I should keep up to the latest in case I wanted to ask for help
> > with it.  But since it's going to give me trouble, I'll just go back to
> > 2.6.21, so long as it will work with the file that was previously saved
> by
> > 3.5.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:09 PM Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:
> >
> >> If you don't mind my asking, why are you downgrading?  What have you
> found
> >> that you prefer in 2.6.21?
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 1:26 PM Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've done some work in 3.5 and I'm considering downgrading to 2.6.21.
> >>>
> >>> Can 2.6.21 work with the xml .gnucash file once it was changed and
> saved
> >>> by
> >>> 3.5?
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> Greg
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