[GNC] Gnucash download insufficient permissions

[David Carlson]

Lots of people are having similar issues, they may different but related.
 Hopefully more people who have found a workaround will report their
success

David Carlson

On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 12:58 PM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with what you say; I'm just saying that such was not my case: my
> Windows download never started. The ONLY thing I did was to change the
> mirror site from my default (Miami) to another location (New York), and it
> downloaded just fine. It installed without any problems (needed admin
> permissions), and came up just fine.
>
> I can only conclude that the Miami mirror had some kind of issue.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM David Carlson <
> david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Microsoft has upped the ante to prevent malefactors from infecting our
>> computers and antivirus software is also doing it's part in protecting us.
>> However, they sometimes also protect us from infection from "unknown"
>> sources like gnucash.org.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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