Fixed, try tomorrow's nightly build from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint.
Turned out to be a std::string scoping issue, gory details in https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/c091197f572a701cb2ecc81c40fe47bbd41f59aa. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 11, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yay! > > > > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 1:08 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > I managed to replicate the error on Win7 and I've debugged into it a bit. The > gibberish in the pathname is because a wide-character string returned from > Windows is getting interpreted as a normal-character string. But that's not > the only problem, the path to the user-config-dir is getting overwritten with > the candidate storage path, and that's what's causing the error. > > For some reason this doesn't happen on Win10, so a parallel debugging session > there is next. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Apr 11, 2019, at 10:22 AM, Adrien Monteleone > > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
