[GNC] Possible Bug with GNUCash - GNUCash cannot see/open files with OneDrive

[Cameron Podd]

Hi Derek,


  1.  head
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<gnc-v2
     xmlns:gnc="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/gnc"
     xmlns:act="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/act"
     xmlns:book="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/book"
     xmlns:cd="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cd"
     xmlns:cmdty="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cmdty"
     xmlns:price="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/price"
     xmlns:slot="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/slot"
     xmlns:split=http://www.gnucash.org/XML/split


  1.  tail
          <slot:key>2</slot:key>
          <slot:value type="numeric">-159644/100</slot:value>
        </slot>
      </slot:value>
    </slot>
  </bgt:slots>
</gnc:budget>
</gnc:book>
</gnc-v2>

Thanks – Cameron

From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 9:25 AM
To: Cameron Podd <cbpodd at gmail.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible Bug with GNUCash - GNUCash cannot see/open files with OneDrive
What about:

gunzip < /Users/..../CameronPoddMoney.gnucash | head

And also:

gunzip < /Users/..../CameronPoddMoney.gnucash | tail

If it can see if there, I don't see why GnuCash can't see it.  Unless the
data is corrupted.  The head and tail will help discover that.

-derek

On Tue, July 20, 2021 11:54 am, Cameron Podd wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> From gzip, I get “gzip compressed data, original size modulo 2^32
> 1969815”/
>
> From zcat, I get “zcat: can't stat: CameronPoddMoney.gnucash
> (CameronPoddMoney.gnucash.Z): No such file or directory”.
>
> Thanks - Cameron
>
> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 8:52 AM
> To: Cameron Podd <cbpodd at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible Bug with GNUCash - GNUCash cannot see/open
> files with OneDrive
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, July 20, 2021 11:43 am, Cameron Podd wrote:
>> Hi Derek – thanks for your response.
>>
>>
>>   1.  I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.4
>>   2.  Yes, my OneDrive is mounted. I can access that spot from my
>> filesystem & terminal and see/copy/move the data file there.
>
> Okay, if you open the terminal, what do you get from:
>
>   file /Users/<username>/OneDrive/Documents/GnuCashData.gnucash
>
> Assuming it says gzipped data, what do you get from:
>
>   zcat /Users/<username>/OneDrive/Documents/GnuCashData.gnucash | head
>
> -derek
>
>>
>> Thanks – Cameron
>>
>> From: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 8:40 AM
>> To: Cameron Podd <cbpodd at gmail.com>
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Possible Bug with GNUCash - GNUCash cannot see/open
>> files with OneDrive
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, July 20, 2021 11:33 am, Cameron Podd wrote:
>>> I am wondering if anyone has encountered - or has a possible solution
>>> to
>>> -
>>> this bug I have found. I usually store my GNUCash file in OneDrive.
>>> However, with the new update of OneDrive, GNUCash cannot see the file.
>>> See
>>> the error below. Has anyone also seen this error - or know how to
>>> correct
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Can't parse the URL
>>> /Users/<username>/OneDrive/Documents/GnuCashData.gnucash
>>
>> What OS/Distro are you using?
>> Is OneDrive actually *mounted*?
>> Can you browse to /Users/<username>/OneDrive/Documents from a
>> Terminal/Command-line and see your data file there?
>>
>>> Thanks - Cameron
>>
>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>>
>> -derek
>>
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