> 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 _______________________________________________ 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.
