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 antivirus software. www.avast.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. 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