[GNC] Today's search....for .lck

[Adrien Monteleone]

Yeah, I'm suspecting the "can't write to file" message is when trying to 
save the file back to its original location which is under a different 
user than the one who's desktop is front and center at that moment.

But we'll need that error message screenshot to confirm.

And then there is the obvious backup file(s) mess to clean up. And as 
you note, that will likely involve copying files from one user to 
another and correcting their permissions accordingly. (before any 
cleanup within GnuCash itself!)

I'm not versed on such, but I'm sure someone here is.

Regards,
Adrien


p.s. — I used to use Gmail for this list till I discovered the same 
problem so I switched to an account provided by my ISP and it has been a 
few years with no issues. (though I now use the list via gmane. And that 
reminds me, I'm long overdue for a wiki write up for gmane I promised!)

On 8/7/23 4:23 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> Wow.  I just went to the archives of this list and discovered that not all
> the messages were appearing in my Gmail folder.  Specifically there was a
> reply to my first message about providing a path/filename where you
> provided
> 
> C:\users\administrato\documents is where the only one which "fits" i.e.
> where GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash is. There are literally hundreds of others
> 
> to which Adrien has now responded.  He correctly suggests that is a major
> part of your problem, and begins to work on a solution. For some reason
> that message from you is not in my Gmail, but that is a completely
> different problem that is for another place.
> 
> Presumably administrato is your root user name with different rights than
> your ordinary Barry Mahon user name.  Part of the untangling will be to
> aggregate everything under one user name, preferably without root rights.
> I am not qualified to help you with that.
> 
> 
>