Awesome, thanks! Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7)
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 17:41 John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > 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.