Installation on Windows 10

[Chris Smith]

Try run in gnucash as administrator by right clicking on the icon and
selecting "Run as administrator"

What does that do?

On Jan 15, 2018 9:13 PM, "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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