OK, latest, just yesterday, Backblaze producedtwo files in .zip, I think I have a jpg.

Is it visible? This tax accounts and returns was 'deleted' a long time ago, but was obviously 'alive' in 2023.....?

Is this where the problem originated??

Is there any solution from here?

Barry

On 27/08/2023 12:58, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
Good advice, I never run as administrator, at least not knowingly.

I am on an island off the South West coast of Ireland, at this moment. I will move on to my residence in France next week, I use this site as my 'best option' for GNU, and so far, until this fiasco, it has served me well. Libraries are thin on the ground here ;).

I am working to locate gnucash files from dates previous to the problem from my backup, Backupblaze, to locate something that may work without the message.

Thank you for the advice, Barry

On 26/08/2023 21:14, David Carlson wrote:
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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