[GNC] Migrating from PC to Mac

[Adrien Monteleone]

As an example, I have an iCloud 'Shared' folder in my Finder sidebar, 
dragging that icon to a Terminal.app window reveals the true location as:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/MyLibraries/SharedDocuments.cannedSearch

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for the iCloud Drive location folder 
itself. But I'm sure a web search would turn up the proper result. (and 
even that 'location' above isn't real, as it just invokes a 'find' type 
of operation rather than revealing a mount-point)

The short of all of this is: navigate to the *real* mapped location in 
the filesystem tree (rather than looking for the sidebar shortcut) and 
you *should* be able to find your files.

Many other folks here use MacOS as well, and some store their files on 
iCloud for access from other locations so they might be able to offer 
more concrete/specific assistance.

Regards,
Adrien

On 2/18/23 10:00 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> I have not tried using iCloud or any other non-local storage for my data 
> file (I consider a 'LAN' as 'local') but this *might* be an issue with 
> Gatekeeper and permissions to access other storage locations. I recall 
> being pestered by MacOS when it was implemented to approve of various 
> applications having access to this or that storage folder and in 
> particular my music apps having access to my music files which I stored 
> on an external drive. A similar situation could be the case with GnuCash 
> and your iCloud folder.
> 
> MacOS *should* ask you for permissions for an app the first time you 
> attempt to access a location from within said app, but that might not 
> always happen, and in the case of GnuCash, not being technically MacOS 
> native, it might not always trigger that permission request.
> 
> Try navigating to (Apple Menu) > System Preferences > Security & Privacy 
>  > Privacy (tab) and if necessary unlock the tab with the padlock icon 
> and your password (bottom left corner of the window) and then make sure 
> GnuCash has permissions for the iCloud folder. That may or may not solve 
> the problem right off, but I suspect the issue is related and this 
> *should* set you on the right path to solve it.
> 
> Note, there are some locations that are easily visible from Finder but 
> that technically reside in a special part of the 'file tree' on your 
> system. iCloud might be one of those (I suspect it is) and so finding 
> out where it is, you might be able to navigate to it from its real 
> original path via the file chooser within GnuCash. (I haven't done so 
> myself as I noticed, this is just a guess)