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First of all, awesome tutorial.

I'm experimenting with the example hello world solana chain app, and I want to add a another field/property to the GreetingAccount struct but I can't seem to get it to work. I'm new to solana/rust so I think I'm just not understanding something about either or both.

Here's what I want to do:

/// Define the type of state stored in accounts
#[derive(BorshSerialize, BorshDeserialize, Debug)]
pub struct GreetingAccount {
    /// number of greetings
    pub counter: u64,
    /// add this new field 
    pub counter2: u32,
}

I want to add that new counter2 field so I can figure out how to add new fields and use them in the on-chain program.

I think it has something to do with the BorshDeserialize try_from_slice method.

The error when I run the the rust tests is:

---- test::test_sanity stdout ----
Account Data len(): [0, 0, 0, 0]
thread 'test::test_sanity' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Custom { kind: InvalidInput, error: "Unexpected length of input" }', src/lib.rs:89:18

So it looks like I need to match the size but the weird thing is the account was created, shouldn't the size being deserialized work out-of-the-box?

I'm studying up on some rust as I'm new to it as we speak.

why src/client is empty can you help me

After downloading the zip folder for this project unable to see dist file and node modules. Though I tried installing solana on my windows but it's not installing so I want to use a Virtual Machine(VM) to use Ubuntu on my windows by downloading the ISO file of Ubuntu, the CLI I downloaded for Ubuntu is saying a package something needed that means a Virtual Machine not found in my system that's why I downloaded a virtual box for me to complete the installation after restarting my system on downloading WSL through command prompt