[GNC] Export Report Issue: "There is no disk in the drive." I must click Continue 21 Times !

[A Harvey]

Sounds like it might be a previously reported problem, but I can't access
the the archives at the moment.  Here's an excerpt I saved on my machine
from the thread "No Disk error".  I had the same problem with the memory
card slots on my "Windows 7 Home" PC.

>>
> Here's what I tried that worked.
> 1) Keep media in the drives. ... if I fill all the slots, the errors will
disappear
> entirely.
>
> 2) Disable each drive that causes a problem.  I opened the Device
> Manager in the control panel. The item "Disk drives" lists all the
> drives on the machine including those for the memory cards. Disabling
> a drive eliminates the error for that drive.  If I disable every
> memory card drive, all the pop-ups are eliminated.
>
> 3) Hack the registry.  Go to the registry entry
> "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows"
> The default value of of the DWORD "ErrorMode" is "0".  Change
> "ErrorMode" to "2".  Pop-ups gone. The following link gives more
> explanation
>
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/124873/disabling-system-hard-error-message-dialog-boxes
>

Hope this helps.


On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:23 PM Fran_3 via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>  Thanks Michael but no joy.
>
> When I'm looking at the GC report and I click Export the "Save HTML to
> file" window opens and shows the path to the correct folder on my PC...
>
> But I have to click "Continue" 21 times before the "No Disk" window will
> go away and let me actually enter a name for the report and then click
> Export.
> C:\Users\UserMe\folder-x\folder-y\folder-z\gnuCash
>
> That folder exist and the report will ultimately save there fine... but
> only after clicking Continue 21 times:-(
> Thanks for any more ideas or suggestions.
> Fran3
>
>     On Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 7:39:11 PM EST, Michael or Penny
> Novack <stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  On 11/6/2019 6:54 PM, Fran_3 via gnucash-user wrote:
> > Running GC3.7 on Win7 Pro. Here is the issue
> >
> > When I click File > Export > Export Report
> > I get a popup message...
> >
> >
> > "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive
> \Device\Harddisk9\DR-9"
> >
> This isn't QUITE a gnucash problem, you'd have it with any "save as"
> type of operation. Which is why you are also having this problem trying
> to save PDFs.
>
> When you export from gnucash you will be supplying a name and a
> directory (aka "file folder"). In other words, a PATH.  There will
> already be SOME path currently there (maybe from the last time you did a
> "save as" type of operation) but this is almost certainly not where you
> want the export to put things.
>
> In other words, you will want to be supplying that path (choosing that
> folder)
>
> The "error" message you saw was because although there was a path
> specified, it is one not currently/no longer valid (say referring to a
> mountable device that is not currently mounted). It is telling you that
> you DON'T have a "\Device\Harddisk9\DR-9". You want to be specifying a
> path that you DO have.
>
> You are on Windows7? Do you know where your Documents folder is? In
> Documents create a subfolder with a name like "gnucash reports". See
> what the full path to that is? Try specifying THAT path when you do the
> File > Export > Report operation. While you are at this, you might as
> well create a subfolder for those PDFs.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
>
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