[GNC] Issues with gnucash files

[Mahon Finbar]

Thanks to all.

On the issue of rights, I have never had any issues before this saga, so 
should I assume I have had 'rights' to save documents under administrato??

When you say 'truncated' does that mean you cannot see the CaptureWiz 
images?? I have had issues all along with Gnucash needing specific file 
types to display files for messages, does that apply to gnucash-user?? 
For reasons I don't understand I have never been able to copy files from 
Gnu in my MS Windows10 to the 'required' format, for queries about 
Gnucash....!! Quite frustrating.

Finbar

On 24/08/2023 21:01, David Carlson wrote:
> Your last message was truncated before the salient part, but I suspect 
> that you do not have rights for GnuCash to save files in administrato 
> user space.
>
> You need to unscramble which username is your 'standard' username and 
> put all your user files including other types from other applications 
> such as spreadsheets, pdfs, text files, etc. in that userspace 
> Documents folder or some subfolder.  I am not sure how much trouble it 
> will be to do that, but you probably need to have administrator rights 
> to accomplish that.  Then you can make sure that your 'standard' user 
> has read/write rights for all those files so you no longer need 
> administrator rights.  I am not a Windows guru so I may have 
> overlooked some details to warn you about.  Good luck.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 12:47 PM Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the details, OK, here goes.
>
>     I opened this file in Gnu -
>
>     No 'log' It had a 'save' icon and when I try to save it I get this -
>
>     That is the problem. There is plenty of space.
>
>     Finbar
>
>     On 24/08/2023 18:28, Maf. King wrote:
>     > Barry,
>     >
>     > thanks for the update.
>     >
>     > The *.log and *.gcm files are not your data.  no idea what *.msf
>     and *.dmp
>     > would be (maybe a crash dump?).    Your main data file will most
>     likely be a
>     > *,gnucash file.
>     >
>     > As to backups and datestamps etc.... see the attached image.
>     >
>     > mafs-new-accs.xac is my data file (.xac is the very old suffix,
>     it still works
>     > and ,gnucash is equivalent.  I'm just old-school)
>     >
>     > ignore the .logs
>     >
>     > you can see the datestamps are YYYYMMDDhhmmss which should help
>     you decipher
>     > your list.
>     >
>     > the first backup in my image is 20230824120845.   So it was made
>     today
>     > (2023-08-24 at 12:08:45) ..... as you can see, that time matches
>     the "create
>     > time/date" for the base file.
>     >
>     > hope that helps you with the deciphering, if you can't get us a
>     screenshot.
>     >
>     > Just try to find the *.gnucash file with the most recent date
>     stamp in the name,
>     > move it into a new folder, call it something sensible and open
>     it.  see what
>     > transactions GC says is there.  Add a test txn in and try to
>     save it.
>     >
>     > Good luck
>     > Maf.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thursday, 24 August 2023 16:14:26 BST Mahon Finbar via
>     gnucash-user wrote:
>     >> This is an update of sorts of a long series of messages here
>     since I had
>     >> an issue with saving my transactions at the end of July.
>     >>
>     >> I was unable to copy and send GNU files to the kind people who
>     tried to
>     >> help me. I have no idea why, copy and paste after changing to
>     the file
>     >> type required just did not work.
>     >>
>     >> There were many messages concerning why I seemed to have more
>     than one
>     >> set of GNU files with  different user names, and at different
>     times.
>     >>
>     >> I have now downloaded all the files containing "GNU" for the
>     period of
>     >> July 2023.
>     >>
>     >> There is bewildering list with an equally bewildering number of
>     names,
>     >> suffixes, etc., such as -
>     >>
>     >> 16  files of type  - gnucash.trace.YXDV81.log each one
>     duplicated and
>     >> where only the alphanumeric is different
>     >>
>     >> A large number of 'shortcuts' and many files which I think are
>     backups
>     >> with several date strings in the same file.
>     >>
>     >> I have not been able to decipher these nor files with .msf or
>     .gcm or
>     >> .dmp or GnuCash_is1 !!
>     >>
>     >> Maybe I have made numerous errors, and unwittingly put files in
>     >> different places or formats, but..... I am a longtime user of
>     GNU, most
>     >> of the current longer files start with GNU FEB 12 2019.gnucash.....
>     >>
>     >> Finally, all the files I have now are in Documents
>     >> (C:\users\administrato) with various sub-addresses. That seems
>     to have
>     >> sorted the issue with one of the issues raised in a message -
>     >>
>     >> "Be sure you aren't confusing the two users on your system! (one is
>     >> "Barry Mahon" and the other is "administrato""
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Any help at this stage would be welcome. I have a tax
>     declaration to do
>     >> by mid November.
>     >>
>     >> I would be willing to start all over again and re-enter the 2022
>     >> transactions, the tax year concerned, and create a new 2023 set of
>     >> transactions to continue.
>     >>
>     >> Finbar
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
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