[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Greg Feneis mfeneis at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 06:09:56 EDT 2019


Agreed

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Galaxy S7)


On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 01:47 Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> 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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