[GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

[john]

> On Sep 10, 2023, at 04:30, (Alan) David Smith <smith54 at smith54.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I may have misinterpreted your instructions:
[snip]
> alandavidsmith at Alans-MacBook-Pro ~ % $TMPDIR/gnucash.trace
> zsh: permission denied: /var/folders/4z/9_58dccx62533wcvwb6t4jmc0000gn/T//gnucash.trace
> alandavidsmith at Alans-MacBook-Pro ~ % find /var/folders -name gnucash.trace

You did. The first is trying to execute the tracefile. It's a text log file that doesn't have execute permission (nor would it do anything if it did). Most of the files in /var/folders are restricted so you'd have to sudo to read them, hence the spew of Permission denied messages.

Instead, copy the tracefile to your user directory, that's easier than trying to navigate to its location in Finder:
  cp $TEMPDIR/gnucash.trace .
Then open a reply in your mail program (from the headers I guess that's Outlook) and use the attach button or menu selection and pick gnucash.trace  from the chooser dialog. Send the reply.

Regards,
John Ralls