[GNC] Use again GnuCash

[William Prescott]

Another workaround is to keep the master copy on the iCloud drive, then use the Finder to copy it to a local folder before opening it, then copy it back to the iCloud drive after saving changes.

Will

On 5 Aug 2023, at 11:45, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

Unfortunately the iCloud folder isn't available using Gtk's file chooser so it's not feasible to support it in GnuCash. Google Drive has implemented a similar arrangement so that it's also invisible to Gtk's file chooser. I don't know about other services.

I work around that limitation by keeping my GnuCash data in a dmg that lives in a Google Drive folder. I can mount the dmg and access it from /Volumes, which is visible to Gtk file chooser.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 5, 2023, at 07:54, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com <mailto:derek at ihtfp.com>> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, that's beyond my Mac knowledge.
> Hopefully a Mac user will be able to answer that for you.
> My GUESS is that you just need to File -> Save As and select your iCloud
> Drive Folder.  And then on the other computer File -> Open and select it.
> 
> Just be careful that only ONE computer has the file open at a time, and
> that you shut down GnuCash every time before you open it on another
> computer.
> 
> Also, I don't know what the cache coherency delay is on iCloud Drive, so
> you may need to wait for the files to sync every time you use them.
> 
> If you fail to wait, or if you fail to use it one-at-a-time, you can
> overwrite and lose data.
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Sat, August 5, 2023 9:34 am, Emma Larose wrote:
>> Thanks, I could open it.
>> How to save it on iCloud drive to be able to pen it from different
>> computers ?
>> 
>> Emma
>> 
>> 
>> Le 5 août 2023 à 15:23:02, Derek Atkins (derek at ihtfp.com) a écrit:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On the Mac, you cannot double-click a file to get it to open. GnuCash
>> will always open the last file it used, regardless of what you click. On
>> a Mac, you need to open GnuCash and THEN you can use File -> Open to open
>> a desired file. Then, when you exit GnuCash, next time you restart it
>> will re-open that file (regardless of what you click on).
>> 
>> If you File -> Open and it says it cannot open the file, please tell us
>> what the error is.
>> 
>> -derek
>> 
>> On Sat, August 5, 2023 9:13 am, Emma Larose wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I use again Gnucash after a no use of 3 years.
>>> When I open a file.gnucash it doesn’t open in Gnucash either on Mac 2,6
>>> version or a Mac 5,3 version.
>>> What dit I miss ? What would you suggest ?
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Emma Larose
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