I just started using Manager Desktop yesterday and very happy with what I see but ran into a problem trying to change the location of the Application Data files. I wanted to put them in a folder in my Google Drive so clicked the About Manager tab, clicked the Change button and selected the folder I…

[image] csmb: are there release notes somewhere? Major changes are announced under the category - Releases [image] Housekeeping and other cosmetic changes aren’t announced - generally there is a new release daily but most users won’t notice any changes. Updating bi-monthly is a good policy. …

Ok so I took the plunge and it seems to have worked. What I did was to take back ups of all businesses and I put them on a new Google Drive folder. I then deleted all files that were in my Manager folder - the folder that Manager was currently pointing to. I then downloaded the latest version of…

What - no need for the sedatives, the family must be pleased.

Congratulations @clive . I know you have wanted to get this working for a long time. I do wish that you had followed @Tut ’s example exactly. Using those steps, you probably would not have gotten a error message, but we can not be sure until someone tries it. So if there is a Mac user who is brave en…

[image] dcVest: If it exists, move the file called data out of the default Application Data Folder; To be clear, my experimentation showed this step is not necessary, but harmless. You don’t need the file if you are sticking with the default location. But if you move the application data fold…

Pete_Haworth: I did get the error message once in what I think may have been the circumstances all along with this issue. I selected the new folder by clicking on it, NOT double clicking to open it, and then clicked the File Dialog Open button and sure enough up popped the error message wi…

Interesting. I just tried again by selecting the folder, not opening it, and clicking the Open button and this time got a different error message as in this screenshot [image] Opening the folder to select it still works fine. It’s sounding like there’s something on my Mac that interferes with the…

My application data is pointing to a folder in Google Drive. When I make a change in Manager I can see the ‘live’ file updating. However, when I try to BACK UP then I get this error message… [18 am] This particular file path was the original path BEFORE I changed to Google Drive. Do I now have …

Provide a little more information, please. Exactly what did you click and what did you see at each step? Presumably, when you click the Backup button, you saw a Finder window and a default file name for the backup, such as Northwind (2017-08-20) or whatever the business name is plus the date. At th…

Sure - I clicked BACK UP button, then got the dialog asking me where I wanted to save etc. I chose the Google Drive folder and got the error message that I posted. Next time I tried to save it to my Desktop - same error message. I also tried changing the name - same problem

Changing Application Data location

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