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.
