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" <[email protected]> To: No recipient address Cc: "Snarky Email" <[email protected]>, [email protected] 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][email protected]> 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][email protected]> 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][email protected]> > *To:* "Snarky Email" <[4][email protected]> > *Cc:* "Gnucash Users" <[5][email protected]> > *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][email protected]> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [7][email protected] >> [8]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. > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [9][email protected] [10]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. References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user 9. mailto:[email protected] 10. https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
