Can't save gnucash files

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon May 30 20:21:24 EDT 2016


Any chance the cloud storage is nearing capacity?

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