[GNC] Issues with gnucash files

[Mahon Finbar]

Thank you Adrien for a) being so patient, and b) reacting properly to 
the unnecessary comments.

Somewhere, way back, it is my impression that the requirement for 
attaching to posts had to be in jpg format, is that the case, or will a 
vanilla screen scrape do?? From this message that would appear to be the 
case. Also, I am not certain how much of a scrape you need, I have 
screenfulls.

I aplogise for the confusion between adminstratO and adminstrator. As a 
result of various ministrations to this PC when I first got it, a while 
back, several names were applied, barry mahon, finbar mahon, 
administration, and administrato, The latter one if 'good'

As to  attach, maybe it my misunderstanding. I have a screen in a file 
in 'This PC' with a list of files from gnu. If I do 'attach' (top RHS) 
it appears, but if I then click Add Attachment the files screen 'blinks' 
and if I click 'send' it asks 'did you forget an attachment' If I do 
PrtSc (or windows icon and PrtSc, depending on the advice received!!) 
the same things happens 'did you forget'

I have answered 'no, send now' to send this, sorry, further confusion.

Barry


On 28/08/2023 12:44, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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.
>
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