On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:20 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I think Barry might need more.... > > a) While you are logged in as "Barry" and "Barry" is an ordinary user > you might be able to READ a file in the user "Administrator" data area > but you will not have permission to write to if. > > b) While you are logged in as "administrator" (a super user) you would > be able to both read and write to any file on the computer regardless of > what user's data area it is in. THAT is what your "administrator" log in > is for. You should NOT be logged in as administrator unless you need > that "super power" > > c) With a little time and patience we mat be able to help you untangle > the mess you are in. But unless you are able to break the habit of doing > ordinary work while logged in as administrator, might recur. You also > need to learn to give meaningful names to your data files (so you can > find them, distinguish from files with similar names), put into a > defined location (directory aka "file folder") and if troublesome to > you, control the number of "backup" and:"log files" retained. > > NOTE --- (going to put on my old senior analyst hat for a moment) ...... > Barry, is there any chance that you once had your "Barry" log in > specified to have "administrator rights" and you recently, quite > properly, respecified "Barry" to be just an ordinary user? And then all > of a sudden, logged in as "Barry" could no longer save? Because if you > originally created you gnucash books while logged in as "administrator" > but found that all worked fine while logged in as "Barry" (but "Barry" > ALSO had administrator rights) Because in that case, what you are > experiencing is exactly what I would expect to happen. Administrator > rights are like a superpower, can access any user's data. > > Michael D Novack > A thought: I assume GnuCash needs admin rights to install (as many apps do). I normally download programs as myself (and ordinary user) and install them, providing my administrator credentials upon request. At the end of the install, some programs ask if I want to run the program. When doing an install as I've outlined, I always answer "no", because I'm afraid that the installation program may still be running as the administrator or with admin rights. Thus, I decline to run it, and run it separately as myself. Maybe he did an update of GnuCash, and then ran it as the admin without realizing? Is that possible?? _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ 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.
