Eric Beversluis Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com
On September 28, 2017 at 15:00:02, John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) wrote: > > > On Sep 28, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote: > > > > > > > > Eric Beversluis > > Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com > > > > On September 28, 2017 at 12:56:30, Eric Beversluis > > (ebe...@researchintegration.org) > wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > > > Thought maybe it was a permissions thing. Changed to 755 and used terminal > > to copy to > /Volumes/Secure. Looked like that solved it. > > > > But no. What’s happening: even if I click on the file in the secure > > directory, GnuCash > is opening the one on the desktop. > > > > If I rename the one on the Desktop and try to open the one from the secure > > directory I get > the old “No suitable backend” error. I think this has been happening all > along and moving > the non-secure versions to trash made that no longer possible. > > > > That’s weird: click on one file and gnucash chooses to open a different one. > > Double-clicking on a file doesn't work in GnuCash, it just opens GnuCash with > the previously > loaded file. You have to use File>Open to change files unless the file you > want to switch > to is in the most-recently-used list at the bottom of the File menu. > > FileVault is an encrypted file system. Each partition on a physical disk and > every disk > image contains a file system, so that's what FileVault encrypts. Some people > get confused > because FileVault says that it's on or off for "disk Macintosh HD", > but Macintosh HD is a partition, not the whole disk. > > OK, so /Volumes/Private is a mounted disk image created with Disk Manager. > I've been > using those for years with no problems, though it was created with Disk > Utility from a > previous version of MacOS. If Finder has trouble with the disk image, > everything else > will too. Have you run Disk Manager's First Aid on it? > > What Disk Manager settings did you use to create the /Volumes/Secure disk > image? > /Volumes/Secure did not pass FirstAid. I tried to delete it but couldn’t find how to do it. Erase just re-created it (but 1.0GB rather than 1.5). I copied the stuff back (the Personal2016.gnucash from the Desktop version that was working). It now seems to be working. So I guess somehow that img got corrupted with all my copying and deleting yesterday. Thanks for the help. _______________________________________________ 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.