Microsoft Windows likes users to save all their stuff in a sub directory of My Documents. That is actually the same as C:\users\[username]\My Documents\ . GnuCash suggests creating a subdirectory with a familiar name because it will fill up with backups as time passes. Often users have a different preference, possibly on a different hard drive, as long as it is not in any of the Windows system directories.
David Carlson On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:21 PM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > It could be a permissions issue like Christopher Lam wrote. I just played > around with the Export dialog on GnuCash 2.6.21 on Win 7 64. > > It appears GnuCash knows what extension to give the file based on the Data > Format selection at the top of the dialog box. Mine was at .xml by > default. > > I just tried to do a test save of my accounts' exports to C:\ (which win 7 > doesn't allow), and it failed silently. Tried it again and same result. > > James Fuller, if you're using Win 10, it's possible that if you're > attempting to save to C:\ Windows 10 isn't allowing it, and if you're using > GnuCash 3.x, it's based on GTK3 (sp?) so it's not failing silently like my > older version did, but it's not really giving you an appropriate error > message either. It should be something like "saving in reserved location > is forbidden" > > If so, you're going to want to select a place to store the accounts export > file that's not at the very root of the hard drive. That is, not C:\. > However, some folder on C:\ is OK. There's usually a folder where Windows > computers encourage users to store their files, like C:\Users\James > (replace James with whatever the user's name is.) Try saving there. Or, > C:\Users\James\Desktop > > > > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > > > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:06 PM Adrien Monteleone < > adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > I’m on a Mac, which doesn’t care about file extensions, but perhaps that > > is what Windows was complaining about. Despite the fact that the export > is > > CSV (with custom delimiter) it saved it without an extension. If the > > Windows build does the same, this might be the cause of the error. > > > > Try giving your file a “.csv” extension. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > > On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:43 PM, James Fuller <ja...@plateautel.net> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to export my chart of accounts so that I can start a new set > > of books. After opening Gnucash I move to the File drop down menu. then > > choosing Export I get a screen that offers options. I choose export > > accounts. A screen pops up that wants ( i think ) the name of the file > to > > be saved. In this case I'm using the name ' CruzersGnu19 '. I then > select > > C: for the drive. when I accept Save As, I get an error message that says > > > > > > " there was an error saving the file" "invalid argument" Obviously I'm > > doing something wrong, but I can't see what. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > > > > > James Fuller > > > > > > ps. I'm accustomed to using apple Ipads. I do a much better job of > > communicating on them. Grrr. Microsoft. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.
