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Program c file.JPG1253Ɨ947 99.6 KB
this is what is in my program c file location and yes when i uninstall it it will ask me to accept it or not

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is some 3rd party antivirus or something blocking its installation???

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WOW! it was in my F: HD

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whoa thatā€™s crazy, I do not know if it will run from F:, have you told windows to install stuff there by default somehow?

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yeah =/
do you know how i can change that back?

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no, Iā€™d have to ask google how to do that on Windows 8.1, I only have Win10 and Win 2k16 Serverā€¦and getting it to run from somewhere other than C: is on the list of features to add before I call it ā€œnot a betaā€

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well guess ill test this out for you xD but what is the diffrence with the F: or C:?

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in the source code the GUI part of the wallet may or may not fine the zcash server component if its not installed to C: right now

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Let me know how it goes! Downloading the proving key will take a WHILE

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and syncing the blockchain after that can take a couple of hours or more, depending on your bandwidth

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mmmmm i seem to be getting this error =/ not exactly sure what this means

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Something is wrong when the GUI calls zcash-cli.exe. For more information please start the GUI wallet from a Windows command prompt:

java -jar ZCashSwingWalletUI.jar

and then attach the log as text.

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How do i start the Gui wallet from command prompt? =/

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You may need to start the zcash server, zcashd.exe, from the command
prompt, and let it sync the blockchain, before starting the GUI. the
command for that is:
C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\zcashd.exe -showmetrics=1 -daemon=0

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so just type ----> C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\zcashd.exe -showmetrics=1 -daemon=0
into command prompt exactly?

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yes, you may have to put double-quotes around C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\zcashd.exe

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"C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\zcashd.exe" -showmetrics=1 -daemon=0

The double-quotes are necessary because of the space in ā€œProgram Filesā€.

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yeah Iā€™m used to letting the shell auto-complete that for me as I type, which of course is not going to be the case with cut and paste :slight_smile:

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this is what i am getting? does this look correct? or do i need to do something more?

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that indicates that there isnā€™t a configuration file for zcash, which is created when zcash4win runs the first timeā€¦you can run the batch file that does that by hand with this command line:
"C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\first-run.bat"

and then run

"C:\Program Files\zcash4win\app\zcashd.exe" -showmetrics=1 -daemon=0

again