[GNC] A new start - somewhat strange

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 4 08:56:00 EDT 2022


Save to a folder in your personal workspace. Just like you'd do with your personal word processing files.

David T.

On Sep 4, 2022, 14:24, at 14:24, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:
>Thanks - that helped me to do the next step:
>
>    Just create a new file:
>
>    File -> New File
>
>I followed the recommendations, at the end I gave a name, and should
>download everything to C:\Program Files
>(x86)\gnuucash\bin]\spf-total.gnucash
>
>BUT I got: ...may be on a read-only file system ... you may not have
>write permission... or your anti-virus software is preventing this
>action.
>
>Why? So what next?
>
>I see the whole range of directories have been created:
>
>*Assets*
>
>*Expenses*
>
>*Income*
>
>*Liabilities*
>
>but I cannot save what I created.
>
>I beg to be aware that I do not have any people around (in the
>Cambodian
>countryside, where I live) whom I could ask here...
>
>But I still have a previous unsolved question: Why did I have to take
>action (thanks for the advice!), initiating the creation of New Files -
>is this not part of the setup? Any problem on my side?
>
>Thanks for the help - we start moving.
>
>Norbert
>
>=
>
>
>On 8/31/2022 21:46, David Carlson wrote:
>> Norbert,
>>
>> That message means that GnuCash did not find and open an existing
>data
>> file so it is expecting you to create a new one.  Thus Derek's
>answer.
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