[GNC] Help with Export

[David Carlson]

Microsoft Windows likes users to save all their stuff in a sub directory of
My Documents.  That is actually the same as C:\users\[username]\My
Documents\ .  GnuCash suggests creating a subdirectory with a familiar name
because it will fill up with backups as time passes.  Often users have a
different preference, possibly on a different hard drive, as long as it is
not in any of the Windows system directories.

David Carlson

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:21 PM Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:

> It could be a permissions issue like Christopher Lam wrote.  I just played
> around with the Export dialog on GnuCash 2.6.21 on Win 7 64.
>
> It appears GnuCash knows what extension to give the file based on the Data
> Format selection at the top of the dialog box.  Mine was at .xml by
> default.
>
> I just tried to do a test save of my accounts' exports to C:\ (which win 7
> doesn't allow), and it failed silently.  Tried it again and same result.
>
> James Fuller, if you're using Win 10, it's possible that if you're
> attempting to save to C:\ Windows 10 isn't allowing it, and if you're using
> GnuCash 3.x, it's based on GTK3 (sp?) so it's not failing silently like my
> older version did, but it's not really giving you an appropriate error
> message either.  It should be something like "saving in reserved location
> is forbidden"
>
> If so, you're going to want to select a place to store the accounts export
> file that's not at the very root of the hard drive.  That is, not C:\.
> However, some folder on C:\ is OK.  There's usually a folder where Windows
> computers encourage users to store their files, like C:\Users\James
> (replace James with whatever the user's name is.)  Try saving there.  Or,
> C:\Users\James\Desktop
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Greg Feneis
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:06 PM Adrien Monteleone <
> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> > I’m on a Mac, which doesn’t care about file extensions, but perhaps that
> > is what Windows was complaining about. Despite the fact that the export
> is
> > CSV (with custom delimiter) it saved it without an extension. If the
> > Windows build does the same, this might be the cause of the error.
> >
> > Try giving your file a “.csv” extension.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien
> >
> > > On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:43 PM, James Fuller <James at plateautel.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to export my chart of accounts so that I can start a new set
> > of books. After opening Gnucash I move to the File drop down menu.  then
> > choosing Export I get a screen that offers options. I choose export
> > accounts.  A screen pops up that wants ( i think ) the name of the file
> to
> > be saved.  In this case I'm using the name ' CruzersGnu19 '.  I then
> select
> > C: for the drive. when I accept Save As, I get an error message that says
> > >
> > > " there was an error saving the file" "invalid argument" Obviously I'm
> > doing something wrong, but I  can't see what.  Any help would be
> > appreciated.
> > >
> > > James Fuller
> > >
> > > ps.  I'm accustomed to using apple Ipads.  I do a much better job of
> > communicating on them.  Grrr. Microsoft.
> > >
> >
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David Carlson