On 05 April 2026 at 12:00, Dimitrios Dalagiorgos said: > Dear all, > > I have two laptops. Both are configured to use OneDrive and Dropbox. > > I used to save my .gnucash file on a Dropbox folder and as long as I used > only Laptop A, everything worked fine. > > When I open the same file from Dropbox on Laptop B, make a change, and try > to save it, I get the following error message: > > Gnucash could not write to [path]. That database may be on a read-only > file > system, you may not have write permission for the directory or your > > anti-virus softare is preventing this action. > > > Saving works only on a local folder, e.g. Documents, or Desktop. Trying to > save it on OneDrive, or Dropbox, even with a different filename, doesn't > work. > > I don't understand why.
Can you create a new .TXT (for example) file in that directory? If not then it isn't a Gnucash problem but a Dropbox / Onedrive configuration problem. _______________________________________________ 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.
