[GNC] Help with Export

Tue Jul 30 13:49:02 EDT 2019

As others have said, Windows 7 and 10 do not allow users to save files to the root of the C: drive nor in any system folder. It is best to save in C:\Users\YourName or sub-folder under there.

Jack

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of David Carlson
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2019 1:16 AM
To: Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com>
Cc: gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Help with Export

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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