[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 202, Issue 66

[Bruce Schuck]

On 1/26/20 09:00, D <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And yet, still unanswered is why a user would put their data files into /opt in the first place...

Because OSX is under the hood is very similar to *Nix and BSD systems.
Those who are putting their data files under /opt are probably doing so
to follow the Linux Hierarchy Standard. As a long time *Nix geek (first
introduced to Unix on Gould computers running Gould UTX and AT&T 3B2
systems running AT&T Sys V sometime around 1986/1987). Simple answer,
because they can and they want to. :)

See http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html for
reference.

I mentioned trying "csrutil disable" because I have not yet updated to
Catalina. Seems it breaks a few things at the office, mainly Cisco
Anyconnect. Worth a shot I thought. But as someone else mentioned, Apple
has added layer of filesystem complexity that could be affecting access
to /opt. I found this:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/367158/whats-system-volumes-data/367159#367159
and https://nektony.com/duplicate-finder-free/folders-permission

- Bruce S.