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" <ch...@cgsmith.net>
To: No recipient address
Cc: "Snarky Email" <snarkyem...@gmx.com>, gnucash-user@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....@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]snarkyem...@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....@gmail.com>
> *To:* "Snarky Email" <[4]snarkyem...@gmx.com>
> *Cc:* "Gnucash Users" <[5]gnucash-user@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]snarkyem...@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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