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

prl prl at ozemail.com.au
Wed Aug 3 04:36:55 EDT 2011


On 3/08/11 4:55, John Ralls wrote:
> 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
>
>
Hi Derek, John. Thanks again. I tried both ideas, but neither worked. 
I'll give John's idea about running Gnucash from the terminal a try and 
report back.

Regards,
Peter


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