Can't save gnucash files

Raven Long fairhavencville at gmail.com
Mon May 30 13:30:01 EDT 2016


Followup:

When I closed google drive, the permission problem went away. Next time it
happens, I'll try closing drive again.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
Raven

Safe Travels,

Raven Long
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Raven Long <fairhavencville at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm running gnucash 2.6.11 on Windows 7. I run three separate businesses
> off gnucash, and have for several years. Twice this week, on one of my
> accounts, when it's tried to autosave, I've gotten the error message:
>
> Could not make a backup of the file.
>
> I've saved a new file in a temporary folder, then looked at the old files,
> which are still there. Anything I try to do with them, I get the Windows
> error message:
>
> You require permission from the computer's administrator to make changes
> to this file.
>
> I AM the administrator.
>
> I store the files in my Google Drive folder. Again, I've done this for
> several years without problems.
>
> Any suggestions? Why has this started happening? It doesn't seem to be
> affecting my other two files.
>
> Thanks,
> Raven Long
>
>
>


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