[Kmymoney] Can't create new file on network drive

Allan agander93 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 21:42:53 UTC 2011


On 30/11/11 21:34, Jeff Barlow wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 12:50 PM, Jack wrote:
>> First, are you sure you can write to that drive? Second, try creating
>> the file on a local drive, and then moving it to the network drive and
>> see if you can open it and save it after making a change or adding a
>> transaction.
>
> Yes, the first thing I tried was creating another file on the drive. No
> issue there.
>
> I can create a .kmy file on the local home dir. I then moved it to the
> file server and I can open it from there. However... the file path shown
> in the title bar is "4686.0.jeff.kmy". The actual path is
> "smb://flyer/hd0/Kmymoney/jeff.kmy". This does not inspire confidence.

When you say "I then moved it to the file server..." is that actually 
what you did?  That sounds a bit like a tmp file name.

Now you've created a local file, you should be able within KMM to save 
to smb.  Can you try that?  That ought to have the actual name you choose.

Allan


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