[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

[Greg Feneis]

Yay!




Kind regards,

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




On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 1:08 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> I managed to replicate the error on Win7 and I've debugged into it a bit.
> The gibberish in the pathname is because a wide-character string returned
> from Windows is getting interpreted as a normal-character string. But
> that's not the only problem, the path to the user-config-dir is getting
> overwritten with the candidate storage path, and that's what's causing the
> error.
>
> For some reason this doesn't happen on Win10, so a parallel debugging
> session there is next.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:22 AM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >
> > Nevermind. I got lost in the thicket.
> >
> > I see a message now that you already eliminated DropBox as the problem
> because there are local paths that won’t save either.
> >
> > Sorry for the noise.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> >> On Apr 11, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Colin,
> >>
> >> This is what I understood as the point to test some messages ago.
> >>
> >> Greg,
> >>
> >> Several messages back someone mentioned needing to install the DropBox
> client to get real paths as opposed to some mapped paths. The reason for
> this is the mapped paths (which are displayed as real paths instead) are
> insanely longer than the real ones. (ostensibly using some sort of UUID in
> place of each path node) If you use the client, you’ll be using the real
> displayed paths that you see. The premise is that while DropBox is showing
> you what you think is the path, it is reporting something else to GnuCash.
> The path is being garbled by the error message because of non-standard
> characters in the mapped path from DropBox.
> >>
> >> So the problem *might* be resolved, (or at least pinpointed) by showing
> FULL paths, because that would show you the path you think you are
> accessing isn’t really that short, it is MUCH longer.
> >>
> >> Of course, this might not resolve the problem, but eliminating
> possibilities is part of chasing bugs. If you do have the desktop client
> installed, then you still have another problem, or you indeed found a bug.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Adrien
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> And, to continue, I hit reply too soon. It is the actual path that
> >>> gnucash sees not the mirage, so potentially something in the actual
> >>> path is confusing GC.
> >>>
> >>> Colin
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 16:55, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> In that case I misunderstood.  I thought the point was that Dropbox
> >>>> does some clever path mapping that makes it look as if the file is at
> >>>> the location you see in the browser, but actually that is a mirage.
> >>>> It is actually somewhere else entirely.
> >>>>
> >>>> Colin
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> >
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