Installation on Windows 10

[David Carlson]

Can you save other documents such as spreadsheets to that folder?  Is there
plenty of free space on your C: drive (like several GIG's)? is this machine
owned by someone else such as your employer?

David C

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Snarky Email <snarkyemail at gmx.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> I did create subfolder but the same error pops up.  I definetly have full
> access to the folder and subfolder.  Is there any special first time steps
> that I could be missing?
>
>
>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 3:51 PM
> *From:* "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> *To:* "Snarky Email" <snarkyemail at gmx.com>
> *Cc:* "Gnucash Users" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Installation on Windows 10
> Snarky,
>
> It does seem very odd that GnuCash is unable to write to that folder.  Can
> you save other documents to that folder?
>
> I would recommend creating a special subfolder for GnuCash data files as
> GnuCash will be creating a lot of temporary files in the same folder.
>
> David C
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2018 12:52 PM, "Snarky Email" <snarkyemail at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>    I installed gnucash on my Windows 10 system and the new file setup
>>    fails.  I am using defaults for a new account to practice/test with.
>>    When I try to save as xml I get this error:  GnuCash could not write to
>>    C:\Users\Joe\Documents\gnucashtest.gnucash.  That database may be on a
>>    read-only file system, or you may not have write permission for the
>>    directory."
>>    I do have full access on the folder.
>>    Any help would be appreciated.
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