Installation on Windows 10

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Tue Jan 16 00:45:34 EST 2018


Did you install GnuCash using the same user account as you are using 
now?  Or with an Administrator account?

If you installed GnuCash while logged in as an administrator or 
different user GnuCash may not have the correct permissions to access 
the directory in which the data file is located even though you do.

I wish I could offer some specific things to check, but the Windows file 
protection schema is opaque to me.

RBM



On 01/15/2018 08:11 PM, David Carlson 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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