[GNC] Gnucash download insufficient permissions

[R Losey]

I've never needed the administrator account to download GnuCash; I DO need
it to install the program.

The download error was clearly some problem with the mirror I was directed
to (the Miama USA one).

On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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