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Bug 110606 - Save failure is not reported
Save failure is not reported
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: General
1.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Chris Shoemaker
Chris Lyttle
: 119976 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-04-12 02:40 UTC by Brian
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Brian 2003-04-12 02:40:29 UTC 
Upon upgrading from mandrake 9.0 to mandrake 9.1, I also upgraded from
Gnucash 1.6.x to 1.8.1 .  I was not happy with my former username on my old
installation, so for my new installation I created a new user name.  I kept
my gnucash files on a partition that was not formatted during the upgrade.
 I was pleased to find that my new installation with the newer version of
gnucash was able to open my old gnucash files.  After reinstalling, I
proceeded to add transactions to my old files.  I click on the save button
after almost every transaction entry.  After a few weeks, I closed gnucash
and reopened it only to find that all my changes since my upgrade had not
been saved.  After I discovered this, I opened gnucash from a command
prompt, and found that when I tried to save, the following message was
printed to the command line "unable to chmod xxx.qif - operation not
permitted".  If the save command fails, the user should be warned with some
sort of message box.
Comment 1 Derek Atkins 2003-08-15 20:04:05 UTC 
*** Bug 119976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Derek Atkins 2003-08-15 21:18:32 UTC 
note to people reading this bug:  chmod will no longer cause the save
to fail, however if there is an actual save failure the user should be
notified.
Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2003-11-05 17:22:53 UTC 
related: bug 105668 (not reporting failure to save when partition is full)
Comment 4 Christian Stimming 2004-11-01 09:38:08 UTC 
*** Bug 105669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Chris Shoemaker 2006-05-25 00:28:08 UTC 
Current svn does give a helpful error dialog when it's unable to save.  At least, I tested when the file is in a read-only directory.

BTW, setting the file read-only is insufficient, since gnucash will happily save over it anyway.
Comment 6 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:30:53 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110606. Please update any external references or bookmarks.