[GNC] Fwd: Gnucash

[Adrien Monteleone]

On 8/27/23 5:41 AM, Mahon Finbar via gnucash-user wrote:
> Sorry for any ignorance, but logged in to what or where?

When you log into Windows on your computer.

 From what you've provided so far, you have 2 users on that computer:

1. 'administrato'
2. 'Barry Mahon'

You've indicated that at least one of your GnuCash files you tried to 
use was saved in the Documents folder of the 'administrato' user.

> I get a splash 
> screen with Mahon Finbar (my 'official,as on cheques) name on my 
> (Lenovo) PC and a password.

If you are logging into your computer as 'Barry Mahon' (you may have 
used your formal name for the login screen at some point) and you are 
trying to work in a file saved under the 'administrato' user, then THAT 
is why you do not have save permissions. The 'Barry Mahon' user does not 
'own' that file. The 'administrato' user does.

Here is your solution so far:

Step 1
------
You need to move all of those files under the 'administrato' user 
folders to the 'Barry Mahon' user folders


Step 2
------
Make sure you've also set the 'Barry Mahon' user to be the 'owner' of 
all of those files. (that is where the 'Windows permissions' advice from 
others comes in)

Once you do that, you will not get the save error message.


Step 3
------
Then you need to clean up the multiple file problem.

And by 'file' I mean GnuCash data files only. They end in ".gnucash". 
Forget the other files for now.

Can this cleanup be done rather quickly? Possibly. That is up to you. We 
can help, but you really need to figure out how to ATTACH (not 
copy/paste) screenshots to your list replies here so we can see what you 
are working with.



Regards,
Adrien