[GNC] open network paths in gnucash

[Eric Haszlakiewicz]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:01 PM <gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 21:00:17 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>
> > On May 23, 2019, at 8:03 PM, Eric Haszlakiewicz <
> hawicz+gnucash at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I just updated to gnucash 3.5 and for the life of me I can't figure
> out
> > how to open my files.  Now, when I try to e.g. import an qfx file, there
> > doesn't seem to be anyway for me to type in the network path where it is.
> > (i.e. \\myserver.example.com\some\path)
> > How do I do this now?  Why isn't this using the regular file dialog?
> Argh!
>
> That's https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796871. The work around
> is to map it to a drive letter.
>

hmm... related, but not quite entirely what I'm complaining about.


> By "regular file dialog" you mean the Windows native file chooser? It
> doesn't use it because we need to add the backend selector, so we have to
> use GtkFileChooser instead of GtkNativeFileChooser.
>

What's a "backend selector"?  Do you mean the "Data Format" dropdown when
opening a completely new .gnucash file?  That isn't present when importing
files, so the native file chooser could be used, no?

I found an alternate workaround: open a windows explorer window and
navigate to somewhere on my network drive, then drag a folder over to
gnucash's file chooser.  I still don't get a way to type in my file path or
name, which is quite frustrating, and it doesn't show the hostname of the
server, but at least I can see the folder names and click around to get to
things without all the overhead of mapping a drive.

Eric