Can't update preferences and can't get rid of Welcome dialog in Gnucash 2.4.7 (OS X 2.6.8)

[John Ralls]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> prl <prl at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> 
>> On 1/08/11 14:08, John Ralls wrote:
>>> Did you perchance have 2.4.6 installed? If so, see if
>>> ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus (~ refers to your home
>>> directory) exists, and if it does move it to the trash and empty the
>>> trash, then Gnucash again. Regards, John Ralls
>> Hi, John. I've only ever had Gnucash 2.4.7 installed. No earlier
>> versions. The launchagent isn't there:
>> 
>> Cambyses:~ prl$ ls -l ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus
>> ls: /Volumes/Cambyses
>> User/Users/prl/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus: No such file
>> or directory
>> Cambyses:~ prl$
> 
> Could there be an issue with the space in the directory path?  It looks
> like the path is "/Volumes/Cambyses User/Users/prl/..."   Could this
> space be an issue?

Good eye, Derek. I didn't even notice that. That could very well be the problem.

Peter, try editing Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gconf/2/path so that that line is 

xml:readwrite:"$(HOME)"/.gconf

I don't know if gconfd is smart enough to handle that correctly, but it's worth trying.
If it doesn't work, create a symlink in /Volumes without spaces and put that path in gconf/2/path.

Regards,
John Ralls