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

[Kenneth Schneider]

Most filesystems in Linux support ACL’s.

Ken Schneider 

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:09 PM, Ronal B Morse <ron at morsehouse.com> wrote:
> 
> Could this be an ACL (access control list) related? 
> 
> Linux doesn't use them (nor does the Mac, as far as I know)
> but Windows does and from what I understand a broken or
> incorrect ACL config could cause this kind of behavior. 
> 
> Totally clueless about how to check or what to do, but since
> no one mentioned the possibility...
> 
> RBM 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, 2019-03-08 at 13:41 -0600, brob2684 wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>> ----------------------------
>> 
>> 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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