Barry If the issue is as Adrien suggests just a matter of which user account the file was saved under, then by logging in using the other user name your issue should be resolved. It appears that you may have further complicated the issue in trying to fix it. The sage advice here is before trying to fix anything make a backup copy of everything you have before changing anything
Alternatively you can determine the file ownership and the permissions (and change them if required) it has as described in this post from stack exchange ttps://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#:~:text=The%20default%20locations%20are%3A,gnucash . These are Windows operating system issuesthough not anything to do with the GnuCash program itself. As noted on the wiki page the locations where the configuration information haschanged usually with the major GnuCashversion number changes, particularly for 2 to 3 and for 3 to 4. Any files with other extensions (.gcm etc) are going to be meta and configuration files used internally by gnucash but they don't contain any accounting data. If you have saved reports though these will be located with the configuration data as described in the wiki page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#:~:text=The%20default%20locations%20are%3A,gnucash About half way down the page there is a section which has diagrams of the locations of the configuration data by version number and OS which may be easier to follow. The actual data files (<filename>.gnucash) plus the various log and back up files will be in a user directory location. and will have the naming formats as defined here https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup#:~:text=GnuCash%20makes%20local%20backups%20for,gnucash%20suffix and information on the backup and log and lock file formats is given https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup#:~:text=GnuCash%20makes%20local%20backups%20for,gnucash%20suffix . Our ability to help is limited by our lack of knowledge your system and installation. You will likely have specified the GnuCash version number (see Help/About from the menu in GnuCash) and the OS version in an earlier post but it may help to include that in new posts that go to a new thread in the mailing list as well. This will save us having to search back through the previous posts particularly where they are located in separate threads in the mailing list. This is also where the requests for screenshots and/or file directory lists come in. Without that information to work with, we are blind and any advice will necessarily be fairly generic. We need information to help you solve your problem. We generally will assume you have a reasonable familiarity with your OS and the ability to generate screenshots/textfiles from command line commands etc. Google can usually provide you with appropriate techniques if you don't know them. Fairly simple techniques for getting screenshots are described here for example https://www.esafety.gov.au/report/how-to-collect-evidence/how-to-screenshot-on-windows Saving them in .jpg or .png formats will usually work best for attaching to posts. You can use any image processing tool to modify the images to obscure personal information that doesn't relate to the problem for example. Your mail client should have a menu option to attach files to a post. Don't copy the attachment directly into the body of the post as the mailing list handler will strip them off. David Cousens On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 18:01 +0200, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote: > I'd say you are almost certainly right, Adrian, but..... > > There I was, sailing along at my usual boring, routine, data entry to > gnucash, as I have done since 2019. > > On entering a transaction I got the message I have copied several times, > that I don't have rights or space to save the transaction, never saw it > before. > > Put a question on here and a long series of q&a ensued. > > I just needed a simple a - what is the meaning of the message? can I 'go > back' to eliminate it? can I delete the entry? can I close down gnucash > and restart with a new transaction, etc. > > Things like you have two users on the same files, was news to me. > > As time went by and the q&a got more complicated I lost the sequence of > where we were, plus issues with trying to send page images. > > Finally, I found myself with a 2022 gnucash file, and nothing else, in > my administrato folder. BUT, whenever I tried to save that file, just so > I could get on with my accounts, I got the same 'you need rights' message. > > A long way around, but no solution. > > The help and advice I have had is terrific, but increasingly confusing. > I wouldn't say I am an expert in accounting, I have a long history in > IT, but not specifically in GNU. > > The one thing that has created the confusion for me is the bewildering > array of files associated with my, in my mind, simple, accounting needs. > I was not, and still am not familiar with the numerous files on the same > date and time, what is the difference between 'backups' 'logs' and the > last file I was working on. I appreciate the need to have security in an > accounting software, but not the range of files. > > Longwinded? yes. > > Can I recover my situation in time for my tax return date of mid > November? I think I should delete everything and reload gnucash anew, > create 2022 and 2023 from my paper files and send the result for 2022 to > the taxman, (or woman in these liberated days)?? > > For those who get long strings of posts on the same topic, sorry for > boring you. > > Barry > > On 26/08/2023 09:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > Dimes to Dollars the permissions issue was that Barry was accessing > > the file as one user (Barry Mahon) but it was saved in the tree of > > another. (administrato) > > > > Regards, > > Adrien > > > > On 8/25/23 6:30 PM, Maf. King wrote: > > > I've just had a thought on a possible reason the original file could > > > not be > > > saved. I may be barking up the wrong tree..... > > > > > > Does Win have a maximum length for a filename? > > > > > > If Barry (OP) has been repeatedly opening and working on backups and > > > backups > > > of backups etc.., is it possible that repeated time-stamps have hit > > > some sort > > > of string-length limit (either in Win, GC, Gnome-libs or whatever > > > layer)?? > > > > > > Last time I was actively using MS for anything regularly, the > > > filename length > > > limit was 8+3 ... so I'll defer to pretty much anyone's opinion on this! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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