Installation on Windows 10

[David Carlson]

Glad you were able to resolve your write issue.  Why your AV is that
sensitive, I am not sure.  Did you have to whitelist all the other programs
that you use regularly?

Anyway, your comment about GnuCash doing unnecessary things like repeatedly
asking for random numbers in Windows is interesting.  I wonder if a
developer would suggest creating a bug report for that.

David C

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:18 AM, Snarky Email <snarkyemail at gmx.com> wrote:

>    Got back to work on this and discovered that my antivirus (bitdefender)
>    was blocking gnucash from writing files.  I had to whitelist the exe
>    and it works.
>    on a side note, I was using process monitor to try to figure out the
>    issue and noticed that there are a lot of failed access to
>    C:/dev/urandom.  On linux this is for random numbers, on windows it
>    creates a fair amount of usless overhead.
>
>    Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 at 10:42 PM
>    From: "Chris Smith" <chris at cgsmith.net>
>    To: No recipient address
>    Cc: "Snarky Email" <snarkyemail at gmx.com>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>    Subject: Re: Installation on Windows 10
>    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"
>    <[1]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
>      <[2]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" <[3]david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>      > *To:* "Snarky Email" <[4]snarkyemail at gmx.com>
>      > *Cc:* "Gnucash Users" <[5]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" <[6]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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