As others have said, Windows 7 and 10 do not allow users to save files to the root of the C: drive nor in any system folder. It is best to save in C:\Users\YourName or sub-folder under there.
Jack -----Original Message----- From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+jelockard=outlook....@gnucash.org> On Behalf Of David Carlson Sent: Monday, July 29, 2019 1:16 AM To: Greg Feneis <mfen...@gmail.com> Cc: gnucash <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> Subject: Re: [GNC] Help with Export 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. 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