[GNC] Fwd: Gnucash

[Mahon Finbar]

Good advice, I never run as administrator, at least not knowingly.

I am on an island off the South West coast of Ireland, at this moment. I 
will move on to my residence in France next week, I use this site as my 
'best option' for GNU, and so far, until this fiasco, it has served me 
well. Libraries are thin on the ground here ;).

I am working to locate gnucash files from dates previous to the problem 
from my backup, Backupblaze, to locate something that may work without 
the message.

Thank you for the advice, Barry

On 26/08/2023 21:14, David Carlson wrote:
> Barry,
> If you do not have a family member or friend that knows a lot about 
> permission issuess in Windows, go to your local library and ask them 
> to find someone to help you.
>
> Ununstalling Gnucash amd startimg over will not help.
>
> You will evrntually end up in the same pile of manure.
>
> Never ever "run as administrator" unless you know exactly why you need to.
>
> That is my answer.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023, 11:02 AM Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user 
> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>     I'd say you are almost certainly right, Adrian, but.....
>
>     There I was, sailing along at my usual boring, routine, data entry to
>     gnucash, as I have done since 2019.
>
>     On entering a transaction I got the message I have copied several
>     times,
>     that I don't have rights or space to save the transaction, never
>     saw it
>     before.
>
>     Put a question on here and a long series of q&a ensued.
>
>     I just needed a simple a - what is the meaning of the message? can
>     I 'go
>     back' to eliminate it? can I delete the entry? can I close down
>     gnucash
>     and restart with a new transaction, etc.
>
>     Things like you have two users on the same files, was news to me.
>
>     As time went by and the q&a got more complicated I lost the
>     sequence of
>     where we were, plus issues with trying to send page images.
>
>     Finally, I found myself with a 2022 gnucash file, and nothing
>     else, in
>     my administrato folder. BUT, whenever I tried to save that file,
>     just so
>     I could get on with my accounts, I got the same 'you need rights'
>     message.
>
>     A long way around, but no solution.
>
>     The help and advice I have had is terrific, but increasingly
>     confusing.
>     I wouldn't say I am an expert in accounting, I have a long history in
>     IT, but not specifically in GNU.
>
>     The one thing that has created the confusion for me is the
>     bewildering
>     array of files associated with my, in my mind, simple, accounting
>     needs.
>     I was not, and still am not familiar with the numerous files on
>     the same
>     date and time, what is the difference between 'backups' 'logs' and
>     the
>     last file I was working on. I appreciate the need to have security
>     in an
>     accounting software, but not the range of files.
>
>     Longwinded? yes.
>
>     Can I recover my situation in time for my tax return date of mid
>     November? I think I should delete everything and reload gnucash anew,
>     create 2022 and 2023 from my paper files and send the result for
>     2022 to
>     the taxman, (or woman in these liberated days)??
>
>     For those who get long strings of posts on the same topic, sorry for
>     boring you.
>
>     Barry
>
>     On 26/08/2023 09:03, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>     > Dimes to Dollars the permissions issue was that Barry was accessing
>     > the file as one user (Barry Mahon) but it was saved in the tree of
>     > another. (administrato)
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Adrien
>     >
>     > On 8/25/23 6:30 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>     >> I've just had a thought on a possible reason the original file
>     could
>     >> not be
>     >> saved.  I may be barking up the wrong tree.....
>     >>
>     >> Does Win have a maximum length for a filename?
>     >>
>     >> If Barry (OP) has been repeatedly opening and working on
>     backups and
>     >> backups
>     >> of backups etc.., is it possible that repeated time-stamps have
>     hit
>     >> some sort
>     >> of string-length limit (either in Win, GC, Gnome-libs or whatever
>     >> layer)??
>     >>
>     >> Last time I was actively using MS for anything regularly, the
>     >> filename length
>     >> limit was 8+3 ... so I'll defer to pretty much anyone's opinion
>     on this!
>     >
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