[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

[John Ralls]

Fixed, try tomorrow's nightly build from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint.

Turned out to be a std::string scoping issue, gory details in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/c091197f572a701cb2ecc81c40fe47bbd41f59aa.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 11, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yay! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Greg Feneis
> 
> 
> 
> 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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