[GNC] Problem with saving to NAS Drive

[John Underwood]

I came accross this problem today after several years of using GNUCash with
files housed on Network drives (Not usually NAS but drives on other network
computers). In fact, I suspect but cannot be completely certain, that I have
never stored a GNUCash file on, or retreieved one from, a local drive.I
found a workaround for the problem, using two very simple procedures:
Uninstall and Install. In uninstalled GNUCash 3.5 and installed GGNU Cash
3.3 (From which I had "upgraded" earlier - 3.4 showed the same  problem).Now
I am back to where I have been for several years. The impossible today
appears to have been the normal in the very recent past. I can now open a
network GNUCash file and GNUCash opens and displaye it.This is not a
solution! I am reliant on a version of GNUCash which is no longer supported.
Apart from other problems which will not be solved for me, there is the
security problem. My tolerance of errors in security is very low. Unless
this problem can be dealt with in the near future, I will have to consider
tha possibility of an alternative accounting package (with the effort
involved in coversion to it) simply because GNUCash, in spit of its
excellent qualities, does not meet my essential operational requirements.
And that, in spite of the additional costs of a non-open source product.This
is not a uestion of a conflict between Windows and Unix. The issue is
concerned with the standards for file (and path) naming which have long
included a hostname. It is my contention that GNUCash was compliant in
version 3.3 but is not in 3.4 or 3.5. 
John Ralls-2 wrote
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Robert Kesterson <

> robertk@

> > wrote:> John Ralls wrote:>> Gtk isn't going to change the file
> chooser in Gtk 2-24. Somebody did just that last year and we got a lot of
> grief from the distros about making major changes to a maintenance branch.
> There's also no Windows maintainer at this point, so an enhancement
> request for a Windows-only feature isn't likely to go anywhere even for
> Gtk 3.9 (the current development version). > How tightly coupled is the
> Gnucash engine to the GTK GUI?  If the engine is loosely coupled, maybe
> some enterprising soul could write a native Windows (or Mac) GUI and hook
> it to the engine?It's doable. One of us, Christian Stimming, has written a
> basic GUI using Qt. It's called "Cutecash" and it's buildable from an SVN
> checkout if you're interested in playing with it. The Gnucash engine is
> pretty unix-y and heavily dependent upon GLib, so getting it to build in
> MSVS would take a bit of work before one could even start on the GUI.
> That's less of an obstacle on Mac because of the Unix underneath the
> pretty GUI.Regards,John
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