[GNC] Issues with gnucash files

[Adrien Monteleone]

That's mostly my fault on the 'administrato' vs. 'administator' issue.

But I only kept typing that because Barry reported a file path at one 
point with that spelling, and I wasn't certain of a possible different 
language in use, so I didn't correct it. If Barry transcribed the file 
path instead of copy/pasting it, that would explain the spelling.

As for permissions, I'm not even concerned about root/admin vs. not but 
simply one user trying to save into another's file tree. That alone 
would most likely return a permissions error message. It seems Barry is 
logging in regularly under an account with that name, but GnuCash is 
opening a file stored under another user. (at some point that had to be 
done manually via File > Open, or since this is Windows, perhaps 
navigating to that other user and double-clicking the file - still 
manual and intentional)

Why the file is there instead of the regular user account, I don't know.

But I see the solution as moving it to the regular user account, fixing 
the file ownership and permission flags, and then proceeding to clean up 
the multiple file/backup file apparent mess.

Regards,
Adrien

On 8/28/23 4:14 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> I also note, and it may be a typo by Barry, but the user often being called
> the "Administrator" account by some people on the list has been listed in a
> file path by Barry more than once as "administrato"
> 
> What I'm saying is that there is no certainty that one account is or is not a
> "root" operator with whatever extra rights or not.