[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

[Adrien Monteleone]

I did this while still on High Sierra, not sure if that affects anything or not. And I’ll confess, thinking about it more, perhaps I let MacOS rename the file for me when I copied it over. (It will ask you if you want to ‘replace or keep both’)

I might have removed 2.6, installed 3.0 then installed 2.6 again.

I do see that I did another installation of 2.x into ~/Applications I forgot about and it opened my current file, but I don’t recall how I had set this one up or what I used it for.

But at one time, I did have two installations opening different files, I’ll confess how I went about that may have been different than I remember.

I’ve since removed all other traces of 2.6 so I can’t see what I did.

Regards,
Adrien


> On Jan 29, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op dinsdag 29 januari 2019 15:28:01 CET schreef Adrien Monteleone:
>>> I'm curious: what are the names of the two directories that were created ?
>>> Or in other words, how are those names decided on MacOS ?
>>> 
>>> As far as I know on linux and Windows the names are hardcoded to use the
>>> compile time application name unless overridden by setting GNC_DATA_DIR
>>> and
>>> GNC_CONFIG_DIR environment variables. The latter (GNC_CONFIG_DIR) is only
>>> introduces in GnuCash 3.4.
>>> 
>>> Geert
>> 
>> The names matched the app name. (not including the .app extension of course)
> 
> App name as in "GnuCash" and "GnuCash-2" as in your earlier example ? That's 
> interesting but puzzling as I don't see anything in the code that would make 
> that happen. The default directory is hardcoded to GnuCash as of gnucash 3.x.
> 
> Perhaps John does some magic to change this in the MacOS integration repo.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
>