Copying files from Linux to MAC

[Nigel Horne]

Geert Janssens wrote:
>> My business partner has a MAC.  If I zip Gnucash's files and email them
>> to her she can read them, but they open read-only.  Any thoughts?
>>     
> There should be no need to zip them. GnuCash compresses the files by default 
> using gzip.
>
> It the files are read-only for her, it's likely she didn't really unzip the 
> file, but her Mac may be treating the zip file as a read-only folder. So as 
> long as the file is inside the archive, your partner can't change the files.
>
> Try to send her the file without zipping it first and see what happens.
>   
Please don't assume that I zipped to compress the files - that isn't the 
reason I zipped them.

There are a lot of files in the Gnucash directory on my Linux machine, 
so not just one file.  That's why I zipped it so that it was all on one 
archive file, and I don't know that her desktop would read a tar file.

So the next question is, which file in my directory should I send?  Or 
should I try tar? And will that fix the permissions problem?

> Geert
>   
-Nigel