Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

2.6.15 can’t reliably read the data file from 3.x. (if at all, I haven’t tested it) The lowest you can go is 2.6.19. You could use the Flatpak version, the .deb that was posted on this list, or build from source. Regards, Adrien > On Apr 13, 2019, at 1:31 AM, Gour wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Apr

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Awesome, thanks! Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7) On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 17:41 John Ralls 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 >

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Yay! Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 1:08 PM John Ralls 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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 18:25, Adrien Monteleone 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. I didn't see that, I can't see where it was mentioned. Colin > >

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 > wrote: > > Colin, > > This is what I

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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)

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 wrote: > > In that case I misunderstood. I thought the point was that Dropbox > does some

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 16:52, Greg Feneis

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

As I've tried to explain, Jack's recommended settings only affect the graphical illustration of the folder hierarchy and file location in the navigation pane of Windows Explorer. In another part of Windows Explorer, there is an address bar that displays the full path as text. Having the

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21 The point is, does it show anything different in that mode? As I said it is not suggested that you do that permanently, just use it to see what the full path actually is, rather than what Dropbox is making it look like. On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 14:02

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

The point is, does it show anything different in that mode? As I said it is not suggested that you do that permanently, just use it to see what the full path actually is, rather than what Dropbox is making it look like. On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 14:02, Greg Feneis wrote: > > Understood. I don't

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Understood. I don't have trouble getting Windows explorer to display the full path to me. That works well in text in the address bar. I have experimented with Jack's suggested setting in the past, and found it annoying. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7) On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 05:51 Colin Law

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

I agree it won't fix the problem, but looking to see what the full path actually is (which I understood is not what it looks as if it is) may help to diagnose the problem. Colin On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 13:23, Greg Feneis wrote: > > The issue is that in 3.5.1, when I attempt to save to a location

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

The issue is that in 3.5.1, when I attempt to save to a location that I usually save to in 2.6.21, GnuCash won't allow it. In GnuCash's error dialog GnuCash claims the location is reserved by GnuCash. Further, in the displaying of the error message, GnuCash attempts to display the path I

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Thanks Colin, I'm not having trouble viewing a path in Windows explorer, GnuCash is failing to display the correct path in its error dialog. Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7) On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 00:57 Colin Law wrote: > Did you try the suggestion from Jack Lockard earlier in order that

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Did you try the suggestion from Jack Lockard earlier in order that you can see the real full path to that location? That might provide a clue to what is going on. Colin On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 02:07, Greg Feneis wrote: > > Installed 2.6.21 over the 3.5.1, and it was able to save as in the usual

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Installed 2.6.21 over the 3.5.1, and it was able to save as in the usual location, that 3.5 and 3.5.1 have trouble Kind regards, Greg Feneis (Galaxy S7) On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 09:04 Greg Feneis wrote: > Well, I upgraded to "Rebuild of the GnuCash 3.5 Windows Bundle", but > GnuCash still gives

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Well, I upgraded to "Rebuild of the GnuCash 3.5 Windows Bundle", but GnuCash still gives me the strange error when I try to save to the usual location where I've saved in the past successfully with 2.6.x. Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:42 PM Greg Feneis wrote: > So

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

So far, nobody seems to be able to repeat this issue, so we haven't ruled out that it's a failure of my computer that's causing this. So it's probably not worth adding to the bug tracker. Kind regards, Greg Feneis On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 8:10

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 wrote: > Hi John, > > Sorry

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Op maandag 8 april 2019 01:04:39 CEST schreef Greg Feneis: > 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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

path/filename was quite large with a bunch of repeating "../" in it. > > Jack > > > -Original Message- > From: gnucash-user > On Behalf Of Greg Feneis > Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 7:05 PM > To: John Ralls > Cc: Gnucash Users > Subject: Re: [GNC]

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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?

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Greg Feneis Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 7:05 PM To: John Ralls Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21 John, I misread your instructions and only attempted to save outside of the Dropbox folder, but not in my ...\Users\Greg\... folder,

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

I’m not sure how it works on Windows, but on my Mac, when I attempt to open certain files in my Dropbox folder (I am using the DropBox add-in that maps my DropBox to a folder in my system), I see a huge character string in the title bar, with a long repeating sequence of “../“ This doesn’t

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Sorry about the links, I posted this path length issues previously and so today I copied from that email and thought the screenshot links would still work. Apparently dropbox expired them. I don't know about the / VS \. Kind regards, Greg Feneis

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

> On 7 Apr 2019, at 16:32, Greg Feneis 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 >

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

Greg, Release 2.6.21 is supposed to be able to read data files that have been processed by releases in the 3.x series, The developers do want know about your issue with 3.5. David Carlson. On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 12:18 AM John Ralls wrote: > That's interesting. What is the path that's causing

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 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

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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.

Re: [GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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 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

[GNC] Downgrading to 2.6.21

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