Hi, Jack, In this case the issue is on Win 7-64 computer, and it appears I can only have a generous path length if I save within the windows' user folder. Otherwise I get an error message that claims I'm saving in a location where I'm not and that the location is reserved. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7)
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, 16:16 Jack Lockard <jelock...@outlook.com> wrote: > I found the following info on Dropbox and Windows 10: > > The Dropbox app for Windows 10 allows you to access your files, but it > doesn't allow you to sync them to your PC. For Dropbox syncing you'll need > to install the desktop sync app first. If you have not installed the sync > app then all that is stored locally is a link to the cloud storage URL > which could be quite large. Perhaps that is where the issue lies. > > David mentioned in another email that on his MAC the fully qualified > path/filename was quite large with a bunch of repeating "../" in it. > > Jack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook....@gnucash.org> > On Behalf Of Greg Feneis > Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 7:05 PM > To: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> > Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21 > > John, > > I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the > Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder, so I tried this > path and file name: > C:\Xobpord\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official Working > File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (117 chars, outside of > Dropbox, Failure!) The error message reads: > "You attempted to save in H[gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash > or a subdirectory thereof. This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that > directory for internal use....Please try again in a different directory. > (close). > > Then I read your email again before starting a reply and realized you > spec'd the home directory, so I tried the following path and file name: > C:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Files\Official Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (128 > chars, outside of Dropbox, inside user folder, success!) > > So, appears with 3.5 I can only have a generous path while saving within > the windows user folder? > > Things are getting curiouser > > > Kind regards, > Greg > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:46 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > Just to completely rule out Dropbox being somehow involved, could you > > create the same hierarchy in your home directory, i.e. > > c:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\Gnucash Files\ > > > > I was able to successfully save > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash > > and its log file > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash.20190407134124.log > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > > > On Apr 7, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Some more testing on the issue where 3.5 seems to want a shorter > > > path > > than 2.6.x did: > > > > > > Just now, I exited Dropbox to see if that had something to do with > > > it, > > but pretty much the same error for all three path variations, what > > worked historically with 2.6.x, no ampersand but some folder names > > used spaces, and no ampersand + no spaces. It seemed purely to do > > with length, but it doesn't seem to be about total characters. > > > > > > With Dropbox back on, here are some more tests: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) > > Success! > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\GnuCashFiles\test.gnucash > > > (65 > > chars) Failure! > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the last folder from GnuCashFiles down to > > > G > > and still got the same problem > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\G\test.gnucash (54 chars) > > Failure! > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the previous folder from GnuCash down to > > GnuCa, and it also failed even though it was 52 chars, the character > > count that seemed to work previously. Also the error message for this > > is slightly different. > > > "You attempted to save in > > > [gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash > > or a subdirectory thereof. This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves > > that directory for internal use....Please try again in a different > directory. > > (close)." See screen shot here > > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > > dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fpa3gdy6c2w21x6u%2F2019-04-07_9-30-31.jpg%3Fdl%3D0&am > > p;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3676aae59bd4533c26d08d6bbae694b%7C84df9e7fe9f640a > > fb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636902755094184347&sdata=5U8OehuMo7h%2 > > BbJnENplg2CYDoRCrT7N4FJz9nZh0ff8%3D&reserved=0 > > > This was the actual attempted path: > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCa\G\test.gnucash (52 chars) > > Failure! although same char count > > > > > > More testing: > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\G\test.gnucash (48 chars) Failure! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCand\G\G\test.gnucash (47 chars) Failure! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCan\G\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > > > > If I reduce the number of folders in the path, does the max > > > character > > count go up? > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\Gnu\test.gnucash (48 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) > > Success! (confirming results from beginning of this email) > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPath\test.gnucash > > > (66 > > chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath > > \test.gnucash > > (83 chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath > > AndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > > (100 chars) Success! > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandDTestEvenLongerPathEvenLongerPathSuperLo > > ngPath\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gn > > ucash > > (145 chars) Success! > > > > > > I'm not going to test to failure on this folder count, but it sure > > > looks > > like something about GnuCash 3.5 limits the path based on folder count > > and path character count. If I use a 5 folder path, max path > > character count is 46. If I used a 4 folder path, I've tested up to 145 > characters. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:32 AM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > > > The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used > > > 2.6.x > > to save to the same location without trouble. > > > > > > The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Files\(VerboseFileNameProbably30chars.gnucash) > > > > > > The last successful saves to this directory was by GnuCash 2.6.21, > > > and > > was: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash.20190401075914.log > > (4/1/2019 > > 8:01AM) > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash (4/1/2019 7:59AM) > > > > > > Since I suspected it was a path length issue, I tried saving the > > > file > > name test.gnucash in the same location, but got the same error. So I > > went one folder back and tried to save again and it failed the same > > way. I kept shortening the path folder by folder like this until it > > did save, which was as follows: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\test.gnucash > > > > > > Next, I copied the original folders so I could make a test path > > > exactly > > like the path that causes the error, but with no ampersand, and I > > still get the the same problem. > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C and D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ > fails > > just like C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ > > > > > > A screen shot of the error > > > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww > > > w.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fgd8rlgj1kvv0ysn%2F2019-04-05_18-37-52.png%3Fdl%3 > > > D0&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3676aae59bd4533c26d08d6bbae694b%7C84df9e7f > > > e9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636902755094194358&sdata=R3pg > > > qEKE8A2LucbhZs82wgblkG8XQtzEMyO7WVEVJEg%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > Next, I copied the original folder so I could make a test path > > > exactly > > like the path that causes the error, but with no spaces in the folder > > names and no ampersand, and I still get the same problem. However, > > this time, when gnucash tried to display the path in the error > > message, it got some of it right. > > > > > > A screen shot of that is here: > > > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww > > > w.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fe3p0agpdlkmzia4%2F2019-04-05_18-52-26.png%3Fdl%3 > > > D0&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3676aae59bd4533c26d08d6bbae694b%7C84df9e7f > > > e9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636902755094194358&sdata=dEWI > > > EAWzPpwxvl2l4imPtq%2FWtft7h0%2F7CT8svqAb6Gc%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:14 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > That's interesting. What is the path that's causing trouble with > > > 3.5, > > and please remind me what OS you're using. > > > > > > Regards, > > > John Ralls > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > There's a problem with 3.5 where it won't save to the usual > > > > location > > that I > > > > have saved the file to when I was using 2.6.x For some reason 3.5 > > > > has > > a > > > > problem with path length. I never had a problem with 2.6.21, I > > > > just thought I should keep up to the latest in case I wanted to > > > > ask for help with it. But since it's going to give me trouble, > > > > I'll just go back to 2.6.21, so long as it will work with the file > > > > that was previously > > saved by > > > > 3.5. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > Greg Feneis > > > > <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F > > > > www.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Felectromechanical&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3 > > > > 676aae59bd4533c26d08d6bbae694b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa% > > > > 7C1%7C0%7C636902755094194358&sdata=n36NxxifMk4%2BIzKNIUrZPnD1j > > > > Z3WT%2FKdyRg2Rwb9Xtk%3D&reserved=0> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:09 PM Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> If you don't mind my asking, why are you downgrading? 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