Can no longer save transactions!

[edodd at billiau.net]

> On 11 July 2011 01:51, Michael C. Smith <michael.c.smith at alumni.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
>> I'm having a problem with GnuCash 2.2.9 (built from r17949M on
>> 2010-03-23)
>> running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and up to date with patches).
>>
>> Starting this afternoon, I can no longer save any new transactions. Â I
>> can
>> create them in the registers, click "save" (and have the "save" progress
>> bar
>> work to completion), but when I go to quit GnuCash, I get a warning
>> dialog
>> (with 3 buttons) that I should save my work before exiting (or loose the
>> transactions entered over the previous few minutes). Â When I click
>> "save" in
>> that dialog, it takes a few moments and then I'm presented with a two
>> button
>> dialog giving me the choice of saving or continuing (and loosing my
>> transactions). Â Saving takes a few more moments before bringing be back
>> to
>> the two-button dialog. Â The only way to terminate the "loop" is to
>> chose to
>> loose the transactions.
>
> Have you somehow made the accounts file read only?  If you right click
> the accounts file in nautilus (the file browser), select properties
> and then Permissions you should see yourself as the Owner and Read and
> Write for the Access permissions for yourself.
>
> Colin
>

try save as "some_other_name"
which would work if Colin is correct.