Hi Marco, You are confused because the QGIS installer puts a lot of different launcher icons into "QGIS" folder.
You need to start QGIS via the "QGIS Desktop" icon -- and nothing else. Best, Ben On 18/01/18 14:47, Marco Giansoldati wrote: > Dear Members, > > I am completely new to QGIS and I just installed it. > > I downloaded and started to read two manuals. > > Yet, the these two books do not address the problem I encounter at the > very beginning. > > I am asked to locate a folder with data for Grass GIS which should be > labelled Location. > > I created the folder Location but I do not understand how to load the data. > > I am actually not able to locate the data.There is no .gxw. I downloaded > the exercise data from this url: > > https://qgis.org/downloads/data/ > > but when I tried to load there is no file with .gxw > > I would be extremely thankful if you could help me. > > Thanks > > Regards > > Marco > > -- > > Dr. Marco Giansoldati Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali, > Matematiche e Statistiche Università degli Studi di Trieste Via > dell'Università, 1 - 34123 Trieste, Italy Phone: +39-0405582857 > <tel:+39%20040%20558%207076> - Fax: +39-0405587033 > <tel:+39%20040%20558%207033>e-mail: mgiansold...@units.it > <mailto:danie...@units.it> Personal web page - > _https://sites.google.com/view/marcogiansoldati/home_ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Dr. Benjamin Ducke Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) Zentrale Berlin, IT-Referat * Projekt "Stunde Null" * _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user