Homebrew upgraded to 6.0 - and now the database is gone

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I had Gramps 5.2.4 running on macOS (15.3.1) and ran brew upgrade without thinking much of it. When I came back to Gramps later it was showing an exception dialog and wasn’t responding to my attempts to quit, so I force quit it.

I reopened Gramps and no family trees were listed. At this point I realised brew had updated it to 6.0.0. I tried reinstalling the 5.2.4 .dmg but still nothing listed.

Looking in /Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/gramps it seems that there is no sqlite database at all. I will try to restore from a backup, but does anyone know what might have happened here?

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It seems likely that you were using a custom folder location for your databasepath.

I suggest opening in the recent-files-gramps.xml file (in your Gramps User Directory) for the path of the last successfully opened tree.

See Database Locked - use force-unlock option - #11 by emyoulation

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Thank you Brian - I was able to track that file down at /Users/<user>/.local/share/gramps and set /Users/<user>/.local/share/gramps/grampsdb as my database path. The family trees reappeared and the upgrade seems to have gone fine.

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We’re still trying to discover where this problem originates.

with Gramps not running, could you open a Terminal window and run gramps -v and paste the results here?