In reply to my own message, in the interest of trying to run a fresh
installation of GnuCash, I logged in to a different (new) Mac user account and
replicated the test there. In other words, I opened GnuCash and created a
simple file with AAPL and tried to retrieve prices. I receive the same error.
Because GnuCash on the Mac installs the application bundle at the system level,
the environment file there is still invoked (a check in that account confirms
that this file is accessible in the new account), so I wonder whether there is
something going on there that causes my problem.
I don’t know whether this is a problem, but digging through the enviroment file
yields two variables with John’s folder structures:
GNC_DBD_DIR=/Users/john/Development/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-2.6-Leopard/inst/lib/dbd
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/Users/john/Development/Gnucash-Build/Gnucash-2.6-Leopard/inst/share;{XDG_DATA_DIRS};/usr/local/share;/usr/share
These should be removed, or scrubbed to be generically valid.
At this point, I am at a loss for how to proceed.
I would try for a “clean slate,” but I would have thought that downloading and
installing the newer version would have done that. Since I have been using
GnuCash so long, and have sporadically attempted to contribute to the project,
my machine has numerous development tools (git, SourceTree, etc.) and GnuCash
content (gnucash-docs, gnucash-htdocs) installed; I imagine I could delete all
of that as well, and try from there. Given how much trouble it has been for me
to get these development technologies to work, I am loathe to take this step,
however.
Geert mentioned that the Alphavantage settings will be incorporated into 3.0;
when is that slated for release? Is the feature active on 2.7.4—and should I
try using that (*he shudders*)?
David
> On Feb 9, 2018, at 9:40 AM, David T. via gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, adding these lines to my config.user did not result in any
> further information. I am stumped, and disappointed.
>
> <aside>
> It seems that an upgrade of GnuCash not only tanks one’s customized
> environment file in the application bundle (understandable), but also any
> additional files that a user might have put into the DOT_GNUCASH_DIR
> folder—like, custom scheme reports, or a config.user file that a user might
> have created in vain attempts to get said custom reports to load into their
> personal installation of GnuCash. I find this circumstance to be rather
> troubling, as the files that a user has put into this folder should not be
> summarily sent to the executioner by the next version of the application.
> This is especially troubling given that the authorized methods for creating
> and using custom scheme reports (as convoluted and sensitive as they are)
> specifically directs such reports to be placed into this folder. If *I* were
> to have written a custom report for GnuCash (as opposed to simply copying
> someone else’s work to my own system) I would be pretty ticked off to find my
> work discarded this way. Thank goodness I had backups, but really, one
> shouldn’t have to restore from a backup on this.
> </aside>
>
> I have now created a simple file to test out price retrieval. I put one stock
> account that uses AAPL, a cash account and Equity, and created a simple buy
> transaction (to create one price entry). For me, this file fails in the same
> way. I attach it here, so that someone else can test it. If it works for you,
> then there is something about my Mac that F::Q doesn’t like. And then I am
> really up the creek, because it’s a big operating system out there…
>
> David
>
> <TestAlpha.gnucash>
>
>> On Feb 8, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be>
>> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> You can put the attached config.user file in your DOT_GNUCASH_DIR ($HOME/
>> Library/Application Support/Gnucash)
>>
>> If you then start gnucash from the command line, it should print out the
>> value
>> of your API key there, together with the version of Finance::Quote that got
>> installed. Unless the OS X edition doesn't print this early boot
>> information...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geert<config.user>
>
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