[GNC] Gnucash download insufficient permissions

[David Carlson]

I think permissions is the key word.  Probably need to use administrator
account

David Carlson

On Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 3:39 PM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was using the current version of Firefox. I've never had  trouble
> before; it may have been the mirror site, not us...
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM Adam H. Kerman <ahk at chinet.com> wrote:
>
> > 12:30pm -0000 12/24/25 R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >I had a similar problem; went to download Windows 5.14, and the download
> > >never started... I clicked on Problems with Download, and changed the
> > >Mirror source from Miami (where it had been) to New York, and it then
> > >downloaded just fine.
> >
> > Is your browser Microsoft Edge? Yes, I have noticed that it will not
> > download executable files without the user jumping through additional
> > hoops,
> > but I haven't noticed that limited to a specific file server. Weird.
> >
> > When I download in Firefox, it's never attempted to block the download of
> > executable files.
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