Money Accessibility and Sharing

Forgive me for reposting, but it's been nearly a week,
and I didn't want to be forgotten.

I am running Windows XP. My wife doesn't see very well,
so her windows profile is set to 800 x 600 with extremely
large fonts, etc.

We have our My Money.mny file in our "Shared Documents"
folder, but when she starts Money from her profile and
attemps to open the money file, we get a message that
says she doesn't have permission to access it.

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks.

Dick
Tue Mar 02 14:04:48 CST 2004

The former problem is hard and there is not a good answer. For all of
Microsoft's efforts in accessibility for Office and XP, Money has had about
zero effort expended on accessibility.

The latter is probably still some kind of an XP permissions problem or
possibly an installation problem. Can both users open the Sample.MNY file in
Program Files\Microsoft Money? If one user creates a new Money file in the
Shared Documents folder can the other user open that one?

What version of Money are we talking about here?

"Spence" <spencemeister@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:58b801c4007d$6fcacc10$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Forgive me for reposting, but it's been nearly a week,
> and I didn't want to be forgotten.
>
> I am running Windows XP. My wife doesn't see very well,
> so her windows profile is set to 800 x 600 with extremely
> large fonts, etc.
>
> We have our My Money.mny file in our "Shared Documents"
> folder, but when she starts Money from her profile and
> attemps to open the money file, we get a message that
> says she doesn't have permission to access it.
>
> How can I solve this problem?

via_newsgroup
Tue Mar 02 16:12:14 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, Spence wrote:

>Forgive me for reposting, but it's been nearly a week,
>and I didn't want to be forgotten.
>
>I am running Windows XP. My wife doesn't see very well,
>so her windows profile is set to 800 x 600 with extremely
>large fonts, etc.
>
>We have our My Money.mny file in our "Shared Documents"
>folder, but when she starts Money from her profile and
>attemps to open the money file, we get a message that
>says she doesn't have permission to access it.
>
>How can I solve this problem?

This answer is a stretch for me. I am not adept at the permissions
thing. It could serve as the basis for some further searching.

Here is what I would do in a
command window. Determine what user your wife is. whoami while
logged in as her will tell you if you don't know. Lets pretend your
user name is Gina. Then logged on as an administrator, change
directory (cd) to the shared directory where the Money file resides.
Let's also assume that the file in question is named My Money.mny

First do the following line, and note the result for later
comparison... I would cut and paste the result to store it:

cacls "My Money.mny"

That will tell the current permission status.

Then do this line to add full permissions for Gina:

cacls "My Money.mny" /E /G Gina:F

The E says add this permission to the existing permission. The G
says we are going to Grant to George Full permissions.

Then again do

cacls "My Money.mny"

and see the difference.

I suggest you keep extra backups in case there is some downside to
the sharing.

anonymous
Thu Mar 04 12:17:33 CST 2004

thank you. That at least got the sharing squared away.
It was a pleasure to use DOS commands again.
(Reminiscing 20 years ago)

-Spence

>-----Original Message-----
>In microsoft.public.money, Spence wrote:
>
>>Forgive me for reposting, but it's been nearly a week,
>>and I didn't want to be forgotten.
>>
>>I am running Windows XP. My wife doesn't see very
well,
>>so her windows profile is set to 800 x 600 with
extremely
>>large fonts, etc.
>>
>>We have our My Money.mny file in our "Shared Documents"
>>folder, but when she starts Money from her profile and
>>attemps to open the money file, we get a message that
>>says she doesn't have permission to access it.
>>
>>How can I solve this problem?
>
>This answer is a stretch for me. I am not adept at the
permissions
>thing. It could serve as the basis for some further
searching.
>
>Here is what I would do in a
>command window. Determine what user your wife is.
whoami while
>logged in as her will tell you if you don't know. Lets
pretend your
>user name is Gina. Then logged on as an administrator,
change
>directory (cd) to the shared directory where the Money
file resides.
>Let's also assume that the file in question is named My
Money.mny
>
>First do the following line, and note the result for
later
>comparison... I would cut and paste the result to store
it:
>
> cacls "My Money.mny"
>
>That will tell the current permission status.
>
>Then do this line to add full permissions for Gina:
>
> cacls "My Money.mny" /E /G Gina:F
>
>The E says add this permission to the existing
permission. The G
>says we are going to Grant to George Full permissions.
>
>Then again do
>
> cacls "My Money.mny"
>
>and see the difference.
>
>I suggest you keep extra backups in case there is some
downside to
>the sharing.
>
>
>.
>

via_newsgroup
Thu Mar 04 12:51:57 CST 2004

In microsoft.public.money, <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>thank you. That at least got the sharing squared away.
>It was a pleasure to use DOS commands again.
>(Reminiscing 20 years ago)

Woohoo!