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      <div data-offset-key="2674g-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span
          data-offset-key="2674g-0-0"><span data-text="true">  Hi, I'm
            trying to get started but I can't get Grass to run. I'm on a
            Windows 10 platform running Grass 8.0. </span></span></div>
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      <div data-offset-key="6h231-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span
          data-offset-key="6h231-0-0"><span data-text="true">I get this
            error:<br>
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          data-offset-key="2rdfv-0-0"><span data-text="true">C:\Program
            Files\GRASS GIS 8.0\extrabin\python3.exe: can't open file
            'C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS 8.0\etc\grass80.py': [Errno 13]
            Permission denied</span></span></div>
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      <div data-offset-key="fbp3p-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span
          data-offset-key="fbp3p-0-0"><span data-text="true">If I run as
            administrator I get a python Traceback<br>
            <br>
            Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
              File "C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS 8.0\etc\grass80.py", line
            2741, in <module><br>
                main()<br>
              File "C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS 8.0\etc\grass80.py", line
            2490, in main<br>
                ensure_home()<br>
            <br>
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      <div data-offset-key="bio-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj"><span
          data-offset-key="bio-0-0"><span data-text="true">    File
            "C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS 8.0\etc\grass80.py", line 874,
            in ensure_home</span></span></div>
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            os.environ["HOME"] = os.path.join(os.getenv("HOMEDRIVE"),
            os.getenv("HOMEPATH"))</span></span></div>
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               File "C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS
            8.0\Python39\lib\ntpath.py", line 78, in join</span></span></div>
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          data-offset-key="d0e37-0-0"><span data-text="true">   path =
            os.fspath(path)</span></span></div>
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            TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not
            NoneType</span></span></div>
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          Any ideas how to fix this?<br>
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