Gnucash thinks data file is read-only, how to open it for writing?

[John Ralls]

On Jul 19, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 18 July 2013 23:03, Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 16 July 2013 02:03, Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>>>> Howdy all,
>>>> 
>>>> How can I convince Gnucash to open my data file for writing?
>>> 
>>> I think there may be some confusion here as to exactly what symptom
>>> you are seeing.
>>> 
>>> Do you get an error or warning when you start gnucash or open the
>>> accounts file?  If so, exactly what message?
>> 
>> The error message was displayed only when I opened the file after
>> re-starting the computer:
>> 
>>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>>> Recently, Gnucash (v. 2.4.13) failed to open a data file,
>>>> complaining it couldn't get a lock. I closed Gnucash to deal with
>>>> this, couldn't find a lock file anywhere, and re-opened Gnucash.
>>>> From that point on, though, Gnucash doesn't complain, but neither
>>>> will it allow me to save any changes to the file.
>> 
>> I don't recall what the message was exactly.
>> 
>>> What do you do to get the read only error, and exactly what message
>>> are you seeing?
>> 
>> There is no error message now. But the functions to save the file are
>> disabled, as though the file is opened read-only.
> 
> With sqlite I believe it saves the data automatically each time you do
> anything (though someone may correct me here).  If so then the Save
> button is probably always greyed out.  I suspect it has been working
> fine all along.

Yes, that's correct about "Save". It's never enabled with a SQL backend.

Regards,
John Ralls