[GNC] Could not read the contents of GnuCash: Error opening directory '[path name here]': Permission denied

[David Carlson]

There could be several problems, and you may need to do some research to
figure out which you are having and how to work around it.

First, are you able to open and mount the Veracrypt volume.  You will need
to have the Veracrypt program installed and running and have your Veracrypt
key to succeed with that part.  Second, some programs have trouble working
with network shared resources and others do not in Ubuntu.  You may need to
use your Files utility to navigate to the data file on the Veracrypt Volume
and double click the filename to open the file.

There are more possibilities, but those are the first things to try.

Good Luck.

David C

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:48 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Where is your data file located. The error message  indicates a permissions
> problem not a problem in GnuCash itself. It may be that your data file is
> in
> a directory you do not own and you may not own the file itself. If you used
> administrator privileges to copy the data file to your system and/or create
> the directory it is in for example. Your data file should be located
> somewhere under your home directory /home/<user> where <user> is your
> username.
>
> ls -al <path-to directory> should list the permissions, owner and group for
> your data file. They should be something like
> -rw-r--r-- 1 <username> <username> <file-size> <date-time>
> '<filename>.gnucash
> You will also see log files and backup files in your directory. If this is
> OK check up the directory tree
>
> cd <path-to-directory>    # puts you in the directory containing your file
> cd..                                 # puts you in the directory which
> contains the directory containing your file
> ls -al                               # list the directories and files
>
> The containing directory should have permissions something like:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 4 <username> <username> <size> <date-time> <directory-name>
>
> If the permissions especially for the file owner ( first group after d or
> -)
> are not rwx and you do not at least have read and write access to the
> directory GnuCash will not be able to open the file.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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