[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon Apr 8 04:47:42 EDT 2019


Op maandag 8 april 2019 01:04:39 CEST schreef Greg Feneis:
> 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).
> 
It's suspicious the error message suggests you're saving in a subdirectory of 
what gnucash understands as your GNC_DATA_HOME directory. So something odd is 
going on here. And probably the "giggerish" in there is a clue.


> 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?

Regards,

Geert




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