[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

[Michael Hendry]

> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:32, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

These Dropbox links give 404 errors - “That file isn’t here any more”.

> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg

Just a thought - could there be a clash of character sets between what Windows expects and what Gnucash delivers?

Or a “\” vs “/“ clash?

Michael