Custom reports do not load after upgrade to 2.6.4 on OSX

[John Ralls]

On Oct 19, 2014, at 12:11 PM, John W. O'Brien <john at saltant.com> wrote:

> Hello Gnucash-user,
> 
> While using 2.6.3, I successfully followed the wiki guide to making
> custom reports [0], and wound up with the following, which has been
> working as I expected.
> 
>    $ ls -1 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Gnucash/*saltant*
>    /Users/obrienjw/Library/Application
> Support/Gnucash/saltant-customer-report.scm
>    /Users/obrienjw/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/saltant-invoice.scm
>    /Users/obrienjw/Library/Application
> Support/Gnucash/stylesheet-saltant.scm
>    $ cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/Gnucash/config.user
>    (load "saltant-invoice.scm")
>    (load "saltant-customer-report.scm")
>    (load "stylesheet-saltant.scm")
> 
> Upon upgrading to 2.6.4, the custom reports stopped loading on startup.
> I found this in the trace file:
> 
>    ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
> "/saltant-invoice.scm"
> 
> If I run gnucash from the command line, that error follows my CWD. For
> example, if I run it from my homedir, it says,
> 
>    ERROR: In procedure open-file: No such file or directory:
> "/Users/obrienjw/saltant-invoice.scm"
> 
> I don't see anything obvious (to me) in the release notes that would
> explain this. Is this an intended change in behavior, and, if so, what
> is the new preferred way of loading custom reports?


If you open Reports>Saved Report Configurations are your reports listed?

If not, from the command line run 
  grep GNC_DOT_DIR /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
to make sure that didn’t get borked somehow.

Regards,
John Ralls