Colin, This is what I understood as the point to test some messages ago.
Greg, Several messages back someone mentioned needing to install the DropBox client to get real paths as opposed to some mapped paths. The reason for this is the mapped paths (which are displayed as real paths instead) are insanely longer than the real ones. (ostensibly using some sort of UUID in place of each path node) If you use the client, you’ll be using the real displayed paths that you see. The premise is that while DropBox is showing you what you think is the path, it is reporting something else to GnuCash. The path is being garbled by the error message because of non-standard characters in the mapped path from DropBox. So the problem *might* be resolved, (or at least pinpointed) by showing FULL paths, because that would show you the path you think you are accessing isn’t really that short, it is MUCH longer. Of course, this might not resolve the problem, but eliminating possibilities is part of chasing bugs. If you do have the desktop client installed, then you still have another problem, or you indeed found a bug. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And, to continue, I hit reply too soon. It is the actual path that > gnucash sees not the mirage, so potentially something in the actual > path is confusing GC. > > Colin > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 16:55, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> In that case I misunderstood. I thought the point was that Dropbox >> does some clever path mapping that makes it look as if the file is at >> the location you see in the browser, but actually that is a mirage. >> It is actually somewhere else entirely. >> >> Colin >> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
