I’m using GC 4.4 on iMac, running OS X Catalina. I want to place a book (say “BookA.gnucash”) in a Dropbox folder so that a deputy can take over in the event of my not being available at short notice.
Dropbox now requires original files, not aliases, in the Dropbox directory, so I can’t keep my books in ~/Documents/Accounts and provide links. In any case, Apple seems to have broken the command-line tool “ln”, so I can’t use that mechanism. Finder offers a means of creating an alias via right-clicking on a filename, so I tried putting BookA.gnucash in ~/Dropbox, and placing an alias called BookA.gnucash in ~/Documents/Accounts, but when I try to open BookA via the alias I get the “No suitable backend” message. I’ve found this technique works OK for a simple text file, edited with MacVim. A cron job that copied the current version of BookA.gnucash to Dropbox on a regular basis and as part of the shutdown sequence should work, but I haven’t tried it yet. Any other suggestions? Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
