Norbert When you click on File->Save As you should get a dialogue box opening. On the right hand side of the dialogue is a small icon which looks like a hanger that you use in a filing cabinet with a plus sign.
The directory/folder you are currently in is displayed at the top of the main panel of the dialogue and the Left Hand Panel should have your disks and locations listed. Select the disk in that panel and then navigate to the location where you want to create the new folder to containyour GnuCash data file. Then click on the icon at the right hand side (filehanger) and you will get a popup box in which you can enter the name of the folder/directory you wish to create. Enter the name and click on the "Create " button. This will then create the folder and change to it. At the top you will see a box labelled "Name". Enter the name you wish to give the file in this box and click on the "Save As" button at the bottom right hand side of the dialogue box and the file will be created. I am a Linux user so I am presuming that the Windows popup will look the same as on Linux but it might be slightly different . I think GnuCash uses the system file open/save dialogues AFAIK. David On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 22:07 +0700, Norbert Klein wrote: > 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. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > > > Virus-free.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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