[GNC] Help accessing data file

[Anna Scott]

Hello GNUcash peeps … I hope you’re well.  You’ve been so helpful in the past and I can’t find the answer to my question so crossing my fingers you’ll make sense of it.
I’m running 

GNUcash  
Version: 5.3
Build ID: 5.3+(2023-06-26)
On a MacBook Pro. Sequoia 15.1.1 

Here’s the thing … I click the GNU icon to start the program and I happily work away until ... whenever I access a Report then close out of GNU I’m left with an extra additional GNU icon on the desktop.  Ive been just deleting this but think that’s not good practice and I should understand what’s really happening. I thought I could it in change a report setting but can’t figure it out - why is this happening?  

Thanks in advance -  

Anna Scott
Sent from my Mac



> On Sep 30, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Peter Lamb via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> No problem, I'm glad you've sorted it out.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On 1/10/2023 13:52, Anna Scott wrote:
>> Thank you so much Peter!  I found the pathway and was able to successfully reauthorize it again. Whew!   I realized later that the other significant event today was that I updated my Mac software just before this happened, so this appears to be a new security feature … anyway I’m super grateful for you taking time to help me out. Have a wonderful weekend,
>> A
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Sep 30, 2023, at 18:37, Peter Lamb <peter_lamb2001 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Assuming that you have a Mac (you didn't say, but the message sounds Mac-ish):
>>> System Settings>Privacy & Security>Files and Folders, scroll down to Gnucash, click on the ">" to the left of "Gnucash" and switch on Documents Folder.
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>>> On 1/10/2023 10:41, Anna Scott wrote:
>>>> Hello helpers … this is my first question after setting up Gnucash.  When I tried to open the data file today it unexpectedly asked if I wanted Gnucash to access my document folders.  Id never been asked that before and in the interests of security said no.  Of course now when I tried to open my data file it refuses and says it doesn’t have permission!  UGH how can I correct this?  Thanks in advance for all who support this product
>>>> 
>>>> A
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