Question on gnuCash file

[Des Dougan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:47 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Derek,
> >
> > Sorry for the delay in responding but I had to wait on my sys admin (husband)
> > to respond.
> 
> No worries.  I can understand.
> 
> > He tells me we're using the SAMBA/SMB file filesystem.
> 
> Ah.  yes, the JOYS of Samba..
> 
> > Any direction or help would be GREATLY appreciated.
> 
> Umm...  Samba sucks?  Seriously, GnuCash has ALWAYS had issues
> on Samba, partly because it's so different than standard Unix
> file systems.  Many of the features just don't translate well.
> And you're on OSX, so the SMB support has received even less
> scrutiny.
> 
> The way gnucash saves the data is:
> 
>   create tempfile
>   write data to tempfile
>   delete datafile
>   link tempfile to datafile
>   delete tempfile
> 
> My guess is that the "link tempfile to datafile" is failing for some
> reason.  If there's any issues with this they would go into
> /tmp/gnucash.trace   Does that file say anything interesting?
> 
> > Regards.
> 
> -derek

Bug 352491 is probably what you are being affected by. I run GnuCash
from a script that copies the datafiles to my network share after I
close GC, so that it gets included in my backups.

The script is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Run GnuCash
cd /home/des/Documents/GnuCash
LC_MONETARY=en_CA /usr/bin/gnucash
#
# Copy files to H Drive
#
cp --preserve=timestamps gnucash_file_name /home/des/H\ Drive/Dougan\ Consulting\ Group/Banking


HTH,

Des
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