[GNC] Fwd: Gnucash

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 8/27/2023 8:48 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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 think Barry might need more....

a) While you are logged in as "Barry" and "Barry" is an ordinary user 
you might be able to READ a file in the user "Administrator" data area 
but you will not have permission to write to if.

b) While you are logged in as "administrator" (a super user) you would 
be able to both read and write to any file on the computer regardless of 
what user's data area it is in. THAT is what your "administrator" log in 
is for. You should NOT be logged in as administrator unless you need 
that "super power"

c) With a little time and patience we mat be able to help you untangle 
the mess you are in. But unless you are able to break the habit of doing 
ordinary work while logged in as administrator, might recur. You also 
need to learn to give meaningful names to your data files (so you can 
find them, distinguish from files with similar names), put into a 
defined location (directory aka "file folder") and if troublesome to 
you, control the number of "backup" and:"log files" retained.

NOTE --- (going to put on my old senior analyst hat for a moment) ...... 
Barry, is there any chance that you once had your "Barry" log in 
specified to have "administrator rights" and you recently, quite 
properly,  respecified "Barry" to be just an ordinary user? And then all 
of a sudden, logged in as "Barry" could no longer save? Because if you 
originally created you gnucash books while logged in as "administrator" 
but found that all worked fine while logged in as "Barry" (but "Barry" 
ALSO had administrator rights) Because in that case, what you are 
experiencing is exactly what I would expect to happen. Administrator 
rights are like a superpower, can access any user's data.

Michael D Novack