[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Greg Feneis mfeneis at gmail.com
Sun Apr 7 19:04:39 EDT 2019


John,

I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the
Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder, so I tried this
path and file name:
C:\Xobpord\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official Working
File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (117 chars, outside of
Dropbox, Failure!)
The error message reads:
"You attempted to save in H[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).

Then I read your email again before starting a reply and realized you
spec'd the home directory, so I tried the following path and file name:
C:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official
Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (128 chars, outside of
Dropbox, inside user folder, success!)

So, appears with 3.5 I can only have a generous path while saving within
the windows user folder?

Things are getting curiouser


Kind regards,
Greg

On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:46 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Just to completely rule out Dropbox being somehow involved, could you
> create the same hierarchy in your home directory, i.e.
> c:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\Gnucash Files\
>
> I was able to successfully save
> C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash
> Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash
> and its log file
> C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash
> Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash.20190407134124.log
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Apr 7, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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