MacOS cannot save settings

[John Ralls]

On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Michael wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> As I read the contents of the "path"-file, it searches for a default file, if it cant find the user's settings file. 
>> But as i can see, there is no /opt/gnucash-2.3.x directory. 
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>> What can I do?
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> That's really bizarre. Gnucash hasn't used /opt/gnucash-2.3.x since 2.3.8, over a year ago, and I don't think that GConf has used .gconf.path in quite a while, either.  The 2.4.3 I just launched didn't seem to need either (meaning that I deleted the ancient remnants of both and launched Gnucash-2.4.3 and it started up with the last accounts file I had had open and appeared to have my preferences set correctly. When I quit Gnucash, neither ~/.gconf.path and /opt existed. 
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> Try deleting .gconf.path 

Hmm, digging a bit deeper, I see that the path file is now in the bundle, at Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gconf/2/path, and that it might very well be hard-coded to /Users/john/Library/Gnucash-2.4/etc/gconf.

See it that's the case on  yours, and if it is, try editing that file to point to your Library instead.

Regards,
John Ralls