[GNC] since Catalina, unable to open gnucash

[Peter West]

This doesn’t sound right.

I use MacPorts, and MacPorts puts all if its files under /opt. I haven’t seen ant references on the MacPorts mailing list to /opt being reserved under SIP.

Peter
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> On 26 Jan 2020, at 2:02 pm, D via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> It might be worth asking why OP is using /opt for their data files in the first place. It is more usual for users to place their personal files in the /users hierarchy (i.e., ~/).
> 
> On January 26, 2020, at 8:33 AM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> It seems that maybe the /opt directory tree is being restricted by 
> what OSX called System Integrity Protection.
> 
> Try following the steps to turn off SIP here:
> 
> http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac-os-x/
> 
> If not, please open a terminal window and supply the output of the 
> command "ls -lR /opt".
> 
> - Bruce S.
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