[GNC] File operations open non-existant drive

[John Ralls]

It's apparently a common problem on Windows, especially Win10. Google "windows insert disk" for about 33 million hits.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 14, 2019, at 7:45 PM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> I believe this error was mentioned in a thread last August (https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-August/079468.html). 
> 
> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to have been a resolution other than to remove the hardware. 
> 
> Sorry. 
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
>  On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:58, wendiallen via gnucash-user<gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:   Win10Pro64; GnuCash 3.5.  When I request any file operations, or click on
> "preferences", GnuCash attempts to read a non-existent drive K.  It's
> actually assigned to my usb card reader, as are drives J, I, & H.  Hence, I
> get an error box asking me to insert a disk.  I click "try again", and it
> moves down to drive J, then I, then H.  Then it cycles through the four
> drives again, after which it finally opens an explorer window for my hard
> drive.  Now I can select a file, or, more importantly, alter my preferences. 
> Any way around this?  Thanks.
> 
> 
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