Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com On September 28, 2017 at 12:17:20, John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) wrote: > > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 8:58 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote: > > > > I’ve recently moved to Mac Sierra. Have been using GnuCash successfully > > there. This > morning when I opened gnucash I got this message: > > > > No suitable backend was found for > > /Volumes/Secure/GnuCash2016/Personal2016.gnucash > > > > ?? > > > > Only thing I can think is that I moved some older versions of my GnuCash > > files to trash. > Had several sitting in other places as a result of the move and of setting up > the encrypted > image /Volumes/Secure. > > > > I seem to be able to open one of the backups, > > Personal2016.gnucash.20170927131325.gnucash. > But when I try to save it as Personal2016.gnucash, after having moved the > original Personal2016.gnucash > to trash, I get the same “No suitable backend” error. > > > > Also strange: Mac or GnuCash or something is creating these two zero byte > > files: > > > > Personal2016.gnucash.20170927131325.gnucash.0.1139.LNK > > Personal2016.gnucash.20170927131325.gnucash.LCK > > ?? > > Those files are created by the xml backend. The LCK file is the lock file > that the backend > uses to ensure that only one user is connected to the file at a time. The LNK > file is part > of a hack to ensure that locking works on an old remote file protocol called > NFS, for "network > file system". > > If you save Personal2016.gnucash to a non-encrypted volume is GnuCash able to > open it? > Does enabling or disabling compression in Preferences (General tab, middle of > the page, > "Compress Files") make a difference? > > Is /Volumes/Secure encrypted with File Vault or a third-party program? > > Regards, > John Ralls > > If I save the backup to Desktop as Personal2016.gnucash, it opens.
If I ‘save as’ the open version to /Volumes/Secure/GnuCash2016/, it get the error. Even after disabling compression before the save as. I tried saving to /Volumes/Secure/Gnucash2016/ as Gnucash2016_New.gnucash, but that generated the same error on opening. If I try to copy the GnuCash2016_New.gnucash version to Desktop I get this error: "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “GnuCash2016_New.gnucash” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)” But despite this warning, it copies something there with a size of 3.3MB, whereas the other files are all aboutl 254KB. The wierd thing is that it seemed to be working OK until I moved the non-secure copies to Trash. The secure partition (image?—not fully up on Mac jargon yet) was created with Disk Utility > New Image > Blank Image. Whether that uses File Vault I don’t know. I somehow thought File Vault encrypted the whole disk. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
