> On 27 Apr 2021, at 19:07, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 26, 2021, at 11:41 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 27 Apr 2021, at 00:57, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> 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. >> >> On my late-2012 iMac 27 inch, “ln” appears to work at first, making an >> up-to-date copy of the source file in the destination directory, but >> subsequent changes in the source file aren’t reflected in the destination. >> Can you confirm that this has been fixed in 11.3? >> > Michael, > > That's the expected behavior because with the XML backend when GnuCash saves > it first renames the original file--the one you hard-linked--to become the > backup file. If you switch to the SQLite3 backend it will work the way you > want. > > Regards, > John Ralls
Of course! Thank you. 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.
