> On Apr 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?
Michael, Both `ln` to make a hard link and `ln -s` to make a symlink work for me (macOS 11.3 Beta (20E5217a)) and GnuCash 4.5 is able to open either of them. You're right that GnuCash doesn't know what to do with a Finder alias file. You could of course use your GnuCash file directly from ~/Dropbox. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ 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.
