Barry,
If you do not have a family member or friend that knows a lot about
permission issuess in Windows, go to your local library and ask them
to find someone to help you.
Ununstalling Gnucash amd startimg over will not help.
You will evrntually end up in the same pile of manure.
Never ever "run as administrator" unless you know exactly why you
need to.
That is my answer.
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023, 11:02 AM Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user
<gnucash-user@gnucash.org> 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!
>
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