Nevermind. I got lost in the thicket. I see a message now that you already eliminated DropBox as the problem because there are local paths that won’t save either.
Sorry for the noise. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 11, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > 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.
