[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

[Greg Feneis]

Awesome, thanks!

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Galaxy S7)


On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 17:41 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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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