I recently completed a clean reinstall of 64-bit Windows 10 1709 on a laptop. As part of the process I updated gretl to the current snapshot. At the end of a session I am prompted to save a record of commands issued which I wish to do. When I try to do so I get boxes with the following messages --------------------------------------------- gretl error Failed to open file 'C:\Users\frain\AppData\Roaming\gretl\prntmp.NvmQJo': Permission denied Close --------------------------------------------------- and when I close this box --------------------------------------------------- gretl error Error attempting to open file Close ----------------------------------------------------- I also used windows update to update a tablet computer to 32-bit Windows 10 1709. After the update 32-bit gretl2017d appeared to run without the problem. I downloaded and installed the snapshot version yesterday. The session record problem now appeared on the 32-bit tablet. I uninstalled the snapshot version and reinstalled the 2107d version but now the problem is in the 2107d version. I have also uninstalled the 64-bit version (using the supplied uninstall program) and reinstalled the 64-bit 2107d version and still have the problem. I should say that there is no obvious problem with the 'C:\Users\frain\AppData\Roaming\gretl\' directory. The file 'prntmp.NvmQJo' has only the archive attribute set. Also I was able to copy the messages to a text file in the directory. I have been unable to copy or open the 'prntmp.NvmQJo' and when I close gretl the file vanishes. I presume that the file is a temporary file containing the instructions issued during the session. John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj@tcd.ie mailto:frainj@gmail.com