Robert, The most likely explanation is a change of permissions on the folder which had your original data file. Compare the permissions with those of the new location you have been able to save the file in. Google Drives and Dropbox folders synced to cloud storage might experience this.
Previous posts on this topic http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Can-t-save-gnucash-files-td4685125.html. Another possibility is to check for the presence of a file with your datafile name and a .LCK file extension in the directory containing your file. GnuCash can usually override it if it is present though and you normally can't open the file until the .LCK file is deleted either manually or by GnuCash. Sometimes if this is present one of the options is to open the file in Read Only mode. This will prevent you from writing to the file subsequently if you choose it. There is an option for forcing an open in normal mode, Open Anyway. iI store my data files in a dropbox and this sometimes causes issues with GnuCash not being able to access the dropbox folder on startup when opening the last opened file . If I use file open to navigate to the dropbox location it then works OK. David Cousens ----- David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
