Thanks. My symlink works; I can cd into the tree via the symlink in a terminal session, open files in the through it, etc.
Thanks for your response anyway. I'm just going to keep using Gnucash from the copy I made. -P. On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > > On Jul 23, 2022, at 10:38 AM, Peter S. Shenkin <shen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting back to gnucash after a long hiatus. I'm also starting up > using > > Gnucash on a different computer. So I copied the Gnucash directory to > > ~/Documents/work/Foo/ on the new computer. (The name Foo was changed to > > protect the innocent. Or is it the guilty?) > > > > Gnucash had been in ~/work/Foo on the old computer, so set up a symbolic > > link in ~/work called Foo pointing to ~/Documents/work/Foo. To my > surprise, > > I got a msg that Gnucash couldn't parse the URL, and another, after > > dismissing that dialog, that Gnucash could not open the file. > > > > Eventually, as kind of a Hail-Mary pass, I replaced the symlink with an > > actual copy (cp -pR) of the Foo directory from ~/Documents/work to > ~/work, > > and then Gnucash could read it. > > > > This struck me as extremely bizarre. I have two questions. > > > > - Can Gnucash really not read through symlinks on MacOS? > > - Note that my Privacy settings allow Gnucash to read the > ~/Documents > > directory, to which the symlink points. > > - In retrospect, I guess I should have tried using a MacOS "alias" > > instead of a symlink, but I don't know if that would have worked > > any better. > > - There is nothing in Privacy to specify that Gnucash can read ~ or > > ~/work, but apparently this is not needed. > > - Suppose I now want to tell Gnucash to use the data in > > ~/Documents/Foo/Gnucash. Is there a way for me to do this without > losing my > > history? (Or my sanity?) > > I just tested a regular symlink and an alias. GnuCash had no trouble > opening a file through the symlink using File/Open or subsequently > reopening the file on launch. Perhaps you misspelled something when you > made the symlink. > > Navigating through macOS alias files requires opening files through > CFURL. boost::filesystem doesn't know how to do that so neither does > GnuCash. FWIW bash and zsh don't either. > > GnuCash has access to Documents, Downloads, Desktop, and Network drives in > System Settings>Privacy & Security>Files and Folders (I'm running macOS 13 > developer beta on this mac). It does not have full disk access. > > I suppose that the history you have in mind is the list of most recently > used files at the bottom of the File menu. The simplest way to migrate to > the new directory is to use File>Open to open each in turn ***bottom to > top***. > > Regards, > John Rals > > _______________________________________________ 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.
