[GNC] GNUcash 3.2 file open issue

[Adrien Monteleone]

As Mint is based on Ubuntu you *might* be facing the read-only usb bug. (which seems to keep reappearing after being allegedly fixed) What are the permissions on the parent folder for the mount point of the drive? And then the same for the gnucash folder and files? (I’m looking for either octals like ‘755’ or the string type like ‘wrxwrx-r-’)

And, I know this sounds terrible for Linux, but does a log-out/in or a system restart magically make the external drive read-write? (a strong indication of the aforementioned bug)

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 26, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Don Pawluk <don.pawluk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gave it a try. Can open the file, but only as read-only and it will not save back to the original location. Creates a temporary directory \run\users\doc\1a36500 and puts files there. the files disappear when GNUcash is closed. Have full access to read & write to the source directory when not in GNUcash, but it does not seem to have write access.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> Don,
> 
> Presumably you already checked if the drives are visible where you expect using Caja?
> 
> If so, can you navigate to the usb/external and open the file from there?
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> > On Jul 26, 2018, at 1:50 PM, Don Pawluk <don.pawluk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Running on Linux Mint 18.3 Mate, open file will not provide access to usb
> > external drives or smb dirves. Will open on local PC drives. When bringing
> > up file system there is no media folder where I would normally expect to
> > find the usb external drives or smb drives.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated, Don
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