[GNC] Problems Accessing GnuCash Files on my D:\

[brob2684]

Hi Colin and David,

I've done a bit more digging and it began to looks like there was a small
chance the issue is linked to the special Windows folders.

If I move a copy of my gnucash file to an existing directory on D:\ that is
not a special Windows folder (e.g. D:\Filing or D:\Tmp) then gnucash opens
the file without issue.

On the other hand, if I move the file to a special Windows folder (e.g.
D:\Documents or D:\Favorites or D:\Desktop or D:\Pictures). Surprisingly,
D:\Downloads works without issue.

I haven't made any changes to this setup in the past fortnight.

A fair bit of further random, seemingly aimless Googling along the above
lines kept turning up recommendations about permissions, none of which
worked.

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However, I eventually turned up this little chestnut:

https://superuser.com/questions/1293897/cannot-save-files-to-desktop-in-windows-10

It seems "Controlled folder access" was switched on. From what I've read,
it's supposed to be an opt-in feature, and when enabled, it uses a mechanism
to track apps trying to make changes to files in the protected folders. If
the app is malicious, or it's not recognized, the feature will in real-time
block the attempt, and you'll get a notification of the suspicious activity.

So it looks like my problem stems from opting in (sorry, I have no
recollection of doing so) but I've also received no notifications of
suspicious activity either.

Disabling this means I can open/save/edit files in GnuCash that are written
to my D:\Documents folder again.

Thanks both for your help,
brob2684



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