[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

[Greg Feneis]

Sorry about the links, I posted this path length issues previously and so
today I copied from that email and thought the screenshot links would still
work.  Apparently dropbox expired them.

I don't know about the /  VS \.




Kind regards,

Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>




On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:58 AM Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > 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