[GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak

[rsbrux]

Thanks for responding. IAC, the point is moot now.

Thanks to the recent update I have gone back to flatpack and removed the native installation.

 

From: Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2025 3:50 AM
To: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Online Quotes failures in flatpak

 

On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com <mailto:rsbrux at yahoo.com> > wrote:

Essentially what I did, except in reverse and simpler:


 $ cp -a ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash ~/.local/share/gnucash

 

As you say, this migrated my reports just fine.

However, the copied GCM files don’t give the paths to the previously opened books/files, so GC didn’t know where to find them.

 

I am not sure why your previously opened files were not preserved. I don't believe that happened to me. Also note my technique was not a COPY of the data, but a symlink, so effectively now I have just one set of preferences stored, not an independent copy. (I had to move the old data first to give the OS an empty spot for the symlink.)

 

 $ mv ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash.orig

 $ ln -s ~/.local/share/gnucash ~/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash