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Hi @elis, that error is actually pointing somewhere specific. Codex is trying to create its local .codex\sqlite folder, and Windows is basically saying “nope” (permission denied). So it’s not really failing to install, it’s failing on first launch when setting up local storage. A couple quick things…

That’s a lot of language telling the user to do work, when it seems pretty clear that the programming didn’t anticipate profile file paths with characters such as world users might input when it makes the local directory for the new obfuscated chat history storage. symptom: el�s could be: Elís (ac…

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LETS GO BRO WOOOOOOOO :star_struck:, im so hyped

Awesome so far. I use VS Code + Codex daily and requre SSL into remote servers, if this software could do that, might never open VS Code again to use Codex :slight_smile: Thanks for getting it out and look forward to the future.

There are multiple issues reported on Github for this first launch issue when the local user folder has non-ascii character. The underlying issue here seems to be related to how the app is handling reading userprofile file paths. The codex_home environment variable workaround does work, but the ap…

Popup was shown immediately on launch yes. Running as admin did help, so now since it’s setup, I can open it normally. I’m on Windows 11, not a work-managed machine. @_j is correct, the path is “Elís”. This causes problems all the time.

Will there be a non-windows-store install method?

I’ve been experiencing troubles when trying to download the files that are supposed to be created by the agents and the skills. Even when changing the global configurations, an dadding some WSL environments and subsystem for linux, the commands executions can’t really generate the PDF file. This h…

The Codex app is now on Windows

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Has some graphic bug on WIndows server 2022, almost unusable. On the first run left panel is not visible, just a black box. Tried on a couple of VMs, all the same. Any idea how to resolve it?

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