Greg, 2.6.21 and 3.x are supposed to be fully file-compatible. Earlier releases in the 2.6 series may not be depending on what 3.x features you use.
If you'd prefer to continue the troubleshooting in the bug tracker, file a bug. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 8, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a coupe of questions, > > 1. Once the working file (xml) is saved by 3.5, does it remain backward > compatible with 2.6.21 in case I want to downgrade? > > 2. Should I log this bug in bugzilla? > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:27 AM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > Sorry I missed this yesterday. The language is English (United States), The > Location is United States. The current language for non-Unicode programs is > English (United States) > > > > > Kind regards, > > Greg Feneis > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 4:33 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > Indeed. I just tried C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash. No problem. > > What are your Language and Region settings? Have you set LANG and LANGUAGES > in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment? Is your userid an > Administrator? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Apr 7, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > John, > > > > I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the > > Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder, so I tried this > > path and file name: > > C:\Xobpord\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official Working > > File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (117 chars, outside of > > Dropbox, Failure!) > > The error message reads: > > "You attempted to save in H[gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash > > or a subdirectory thereof. This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that > > directory for internal use....Please try again in a different directory. > > (close). > > > > Then I read your email again before starting a reply and realized you > > spec'd the home directory, so I tried the following path and file name: > > C:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\Official > > Working File After Testing Path Lengh Issues.gnucash (128 chars, outside of > > Dropbox, inside user folder, success!) > > > > So, appears with 3.5 I can only have a generous path while saving within > > the windows user folder? > > > > Things are getting curiouser > > > > > > Kind regards,¯¯ > > Greg > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 1:46 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > Just to completely rule out Dropbox being somehow involved, could you > > create the same hierarchy in your home directory, i.e. > > c:\Users\Greg\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\Gnucash Files\ > > > > I was able to successfully save > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash > > and its log file > > C:\Users\John Ralls\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > Docs\DeTradingWithExtraNoiseAdded.gnucash.20190407134124.log > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > > > > On Apr 7, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Some more testing on the issue where 3.5 seems to want a shorter path > > > than 2.6.x did: > > > > > > Just now, I exited Dropbox to see if that had something to do with it, > > > but pretty much the same error for all three path variations, what worked > > > historically with 2.6.x, no ampersand but some folder names used spaces, > > > and no ampersand + no spaces. It seemed purely to do with length, but it > > > doesn't seem to be about total characters. > > > > > > With Dropbox back on, here are some more tests: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) Success! > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\GnuCashFiles\test.gnucash (65 > > > chars) Failure! > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the last folder from GnuCashFiles down to G > > > and still got the same problem > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\G\test.gnucash (54 chars) > > > Failure! > > > > > > So I shortened the name of the previous folder from GnuCash down to > > > GnuCa, and it also failed even though it was 52 chars, the character > > > count that seemed to work previously. Also the error message for this is > > > slightly different. > > > "You attempted to save in [gibberish]\Users\Greg\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash > > > or a subdirectory thereof. This is not allowed as GnuCash reserves that > > > directory for internal use....Please try again in a different directory. > > > (close)." See screen shot here > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/pa3gdy6c2w21x6u/2019-04-07_9-30-31.jpg?dl=0 > > > This was the actual attempted path: > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCa\G\test.gnucash (52 chars) > > > Failure! although same char count > > > > > > More testing: > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\G\test.gnucash (48 chars) Failure! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCand\G\G\test.gnucash (47 chars) Failure! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCan\G\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > > > > If I reduce the number of folders in the path, does the max character > > > count go up? > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\G\test.gnucash (46 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\Gnu\test.gnucash (48 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCash\test.gnucash (52 chars) Success! > > > (confirming results from beginning of this email) > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPath\test.gnucash (66 > > > chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > > > (83 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandD\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > > > (100 chars) Success! > > > C:\Dropbox\MyDocs\ThoroughCandDTestEvenLongerPathEvenLongerPathSuperLongPath\GnuCashTestLongerPathAndEvenLongerPathAndEvenLongerPath\test.gnucash > > > (145 chars) Success! > > > > > > I'm not going to test to failure on this folder count, but it sure looks > > > like something about GnuCash 3.5 limits the path based on folder count > > > and path character count. If I use a 5 folder path, max path character > > > count is 46. If I used a 4 folder path, I've tested up to 145 > > > characters. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 8:32 AM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > > > The path length issue was with 3.5 on Win 7-64. Previously used 2.6.x to > > > save to the same location without trouble. > > > > > > The path that 3.5 failed to write to is: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > > Files\(VerboseFileNameProbably30chars.gnucash) > > > > > > The last successful saves to this directory was by GnuCash 2.6.21, and > > > was: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > > Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash.20190401075914.log (4/1/2019 > > > 8:01AM) > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash > > > Files\AfterImporting2018ThroughQ4.gnucash (4/1/2019 7:59AM) > > > > > > Since I suspected it was a path length issue, I tried saving the file > > > name test.gnucash in the same location, but got the same error. So I > > > went one folder back and tried to save again and it failed the same way. > > > I kept shortening the path folder by folder like this until it did save, > > > which was as follows: > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\test.gnucash > > > > > > Next, I copied the original folders so I could make a test path exactly > > > like the path that causes the error, but with no ampersand, and I still > > > get the the same problem. > > > > > > C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C and D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ fails > > > just like C:\Dropbox\My Docs\Thorough C & D\GnuCash\GnuCash Files\ > > > > > > A screen shot of the error > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/gd8rlgj1kvv0ysn/2019-04-05_18-37-52.png?dl=0 > > > > > > Next, I copied the original folder so I could make a test path exactly > > > like the path that causes the error, but with no spaces in the folder > > > names and no ampersand, and I still get the same problem. However, this > > > time, when gnucash tried to display the path in the error message, it got > > > some of it right. > > > > > > A screen shot of that is here: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3p0agpdlkmzia4/2019-04-05_18-52-26.png?dl=0 > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:14 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > That's interesting. What is the path that's causing trouble with 3.5, and > > > please remind me what OS you're using. > > > > > > Regards, > > > John Ralls > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > There's a problem with 3.5 where it won't save to the usual location > > > > that I > > > > have saved the file to when I was using 2.6.x For some reason 3.5 has a > > > > problem with path length. I never had a problem with 2.6.21, I just > > > > thought I should keep up to the latest in case I wanted to ask for help > > > > with it. But since it's going to give me trouble, I'll just go back to > > > > 2.6.21, so long as it will work with the file that was previously saved > > > > by > > > > 3.5. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > > > Greg Feneis <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:09 PM Fross, Michael <mich...@fross.org> wrote: > > > > > > > >> If you don't mind my asking, why are you downgrading? What have you > > > >> found > > > >> that you prefer in 2.6.21? > > > >> > > > >> Michael > > > >> > > > >> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 1:26 PM Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Hi, > > > >>> > > > >>> I've done some work in 3.5 and I'm considering downgrading to 2.6.21. > > > >>> > > > >>> Can 2.6.21 work with the xml .gnucash file once it was changed and > > > >>> saved > > > >>> by > > > >>> 3.5? > > > >>> > > > >>> Kind regards, > > > >>> > > > >>> Greg > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > > >>> 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ 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. 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