[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Sun Apr 7 13:50:18 EDT 2019

Some more testing on the issue where 3.5 seems to want a shorter path than
2.6.x did:

Just now, I exited Dropbox to see if that had something to do with it, but
pretty much the same error for all three path variations, what worked
historically with 2.6.x, no ampersand but some folder names used spaces,
and no ampersand + no spaces.  It seemed purely to do with length, but it
doesn't seem to be about total characters.

With Dropbox back on, here are some more tests:

C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash   (52 chars) Success!

C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\GnuCashFiles\test.gnucash  (65
chars) Failure!

So I shortened the name of the last folder from GnuCashFiles down to G and
still got the same problem
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\G\test.gnucash  (54 chars) Failure!

So I shortened the name of the previous folder from GnuCash down to GnuCa,
and it also failed even though it was 52 chars, the character count that
seemed to work previously.  Also the error message for this is slightly
different.
"You attempted to save in [gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash or
a subdirectory thereof. This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that
directory for internal use....Please try again in a different directory.
(close)."  See screen shot here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pa3gdy6c2w21x6u/2019-04-07_9-30-31.jpg?dl=0
This was the actual attempted path:

C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCa\G\test.gnucash   (52 chars) Failure!
although same char count

More testing:

C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\G\test.gnucash   (48 chars)  Failure!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCand\G\G\test.gnucash (47 chars) Failure!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCan\G\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success!

If I reduce the number of folders in the path, does the max character count
go up?

C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\test.gnucash   (46 chars) Success!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\Gnu\test.gnucash (48 chars) Success!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) Success!
(confirming results from beginning of this email)
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPath\test.gnucash (66
chars) Success!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash
(83 chars) Success!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash
(100
chars) Success!
C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandDTestEvenLongerPathEvenLongerPathSuperLongPath\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash
(145 chars) Success!

I'm not going to test to failure on this folder count, but it sure looks
like something about GnuCash 3.5 limits the path based on folder count and
path character count.  If I use a 5 folder path, max path character count
is 46.  If I used a 4 folder path, I've tested up to 145 characters.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Greg

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:32 AM 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
>
>
>
> 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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