[GNC] First request to kindly help - first response

[Norbert Klein]

Thanks, David,

for your advice what to do. I will write between the lines of your text
saying what I did, and what were the results. I mark the lines from me
with N:, and from you with D:

N: As I have on C: only 19.3 GB free, but on D: 677 GB free, I want to
install GnuCash on D: (I did not check space before where I had tried an
insatllation on c: C – now I uninstalled GnuCash to make a new start).-
I run gnucash.5.7.setup.exe and when the program asked for the location
for the installation, I said D:\ProgramFiles(x86)\gnucash - and the
Installation continued until Finish. D: When you run GnuCash for the
first time there is no existing file. If you go to the menu File->Save.
As you will get a dialogue allowing you to select a location on your
hard disk in which to save the file and give it a name. N: From the
GnuCash icon on the desktop, I got

Unsaved Book – Gnucash - and, like before:

File    Edit   View   Actions  Business  Reports   Tools  Windows  Help
Save                                 Close (with a grayed out Down
Arrow)   (with a crossed out x-sign) With File, I get now a list to
choose from: New File Open Import Save Save As... Revert Print Page
Setup Export Properties 1 pfarm.gnucash Close Quit D: It is generally
recommended that you create a directory in which to save the file for
each set of books you create. The dialogue will allow you to create a
new directory and name it as well as give a name to the GnuCash data
file. Once you have saved the file to the desired location you can then
start setting up the Chart of Accounts. N: I should create a Directory
“in which to save the file for each set of books I create”. But I give
up for now and ask for further advice: 1) how to create a Directory
here, and how to name it, and 2) how to create a File and how to name
it, and put it into this Directory At the installation, I made the
installation into “pfarm” – and this created obviously the entry “1
pfarm.gnucash” – but I rather stop here and ask for advice for the next
steps. I used “pfarm” as the program is to help to manage a “Pepper
Farm” – and I would like to use this term also for the Directories and
Files to create next – but please advise also on this.

Thank you very much – and please help me further.

Norbert = = = D: The window will have opened with an accounts tab open.
If you then click on the Actions->New Account Hierarchy you can select
from some of the presetup account hierarchies and add and remove
accounts as you need.

David Cousens

On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 14:30 +0700, Norbert Klein via gnucash-user wrote:

My name is Norbert Klein, German, since 1990 in Cambodia, 90 years old,
but still alive and interested. After this self-introduction, I would
like to ask for your help. I read since some days the GnuCash user
mailing list, and I see the many detailed questions raised and
responded. Several years ago, I had been using GnuCash, but because of
changed working responsibilities this had been given up – and I do not
have any copies. But the new task is similar: to set up a general
income-and-expenses system, with the two currencies US$ and
Cambodian/Khmer Riel – with the widely used fixed rate of US$1.00 to
Riel 4,000. Then I tried to clean my Windows 10 notebook from any
remaining old “*gnu*” file which might have remained from before. I
downloaded gnucash-5.7.setup.exe and started the installation, and the
installation happened in C:\System\ProgramFiles(x86)\gnucash I was happy
to see that also a GnuCash icon had been created on the desktop, and I
hoped I could now start to set up the GnuCash program

but here my frustration started.

I tried for several hours to solve it – in vain. I describe here what I
got, and I ask for your advice. After clicking on the GnuCash icon, I
get – only very short – a kind of general GnuCash display picture, and
then a GnuCash Tip-of-the-Day. These disappear quickly, and a full
screen field shows up: Unsaved Book - GnuCash File Edit View Actions
Business  Reports  Tools Windows  Help (9 items)
Save                                                 Close (with a
grayed out Down Arrow)       (with a crossed out x-sign) When I click I
see:                When I click I see: Save the current file.       
     Close the current active page. But I cannot use these activations –
but I can close the whole screen. I had also tried the 9 items above –
but I did not find out where these contacts would lead me. So I am
totally frustrated, and I started to write to the help list. Please
help. Norbert -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast
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