I also use one drive for my laptop and desktop you have to wait after closing gnucash for all the files are sync which can take a while there's a small indicator on my task bar that shows the sync process I usually read my emails and news while I finish processing. If I don't my desktop will be missing the incomplete files for gnucash and outlook when I use classic Outlook instead of the web based one.
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM, David Cousens<[email protected]> wrote: Mike, I'm not exactly sure how OneDrive works but if it is like Dropbox (on Linux) it has a local copy in a OneDrive folder on your hard disk which it keeps synchronised with a copy on Microsoft's OneDrive server when changes are made locally. My memory of using OneDrive a long time ago was that was how it functioned but I could be wrong? Are you trying to open a file directly from the server? Does your local disk have a OneDrive folder and is there a copy of your datafile in there? You should be able to navigate to that using File- >Open in GNuCash and then open it. Has the background program Ha sownership/file permissions on the file been changed On Sun, 2026-01-04 at 18:33 -0800, Mike Brady wrote: > I have identical folders for Gnucash files on a local disk and > Onedrive. > Opens fine from local. But attempting to open from Onedrive (for > testing, files marked to always be available on the computer, so they > should be identical in access time to the main files on the local > disk; > they don't take up a lot of space so I may leave it that way on the > laptop if I can get Gnucash to open them again) produces "Unknown I/O > Error (1002)" from Gnucash 5.14. Literally, it was working yesterday. > It > occurs no matter how I try to open the file - double click from File > Explorer, or open from within Gnucash. And, if I copy the files back > to > a new folder on a local drive, it works fine. So what's the story > here? > I don't recall seeing any updates to Onedrive in the last day or so, > and > have been using 5.14 successfully with Onedrive for several weeks > otherwise. > > Note1: my accounts on both the local machine and at Onedrive are > listed > as having "Full Control" for the .gnucash file. > Note2: this occurs for ALL .gnucash files in Onedrive, not just my > main > one. So the running incremental backups GC makes are also > inaccessible > with the same error code. Files for other applications open and save > normally using Onedrive. > > Is there a list of Gnucash errors in the docs somewhere? I did some > light searching and didn't find anything. > > The only current workaround seems to be to manually copy the Onedrive > folder to a local disk outside of the backup system tied to Onedrive > and > work there, then manually copy everything back when done so the other > computer can download it. File copies in File Explorer work normally, > no > errors. > > Windows 11, desktop & laptop > > Mike Brady > Frustrated (today) Plain Old User > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- David Cousens _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
