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?

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Hi. gramps was not on my PATH but here is the output I get from a slightly adjusted command:

$ /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/MacOS/Gramps -v
dyld[14069]: Symbol not found: _iconv
  Referenced from: <1D426CA5-79AC-3FA4-B4C2-F660B92D41B5> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ghostscript/10.05.0_1/bin/gs
  Expected in:     <7BEEC725-F4A8-38A5-B475-4C5C6296E7E1> /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Gramps Settings:
----------------
 gramps    : 6.0.0
 o.s.      : Darwin
 kernel    : 24.3.0

Required:
---------
 Python    : 3.13.2
 Gtk++     : 3.24.48
 pygobject : 3.51.0
 Cairo     : 1.18.2
 pycairo   : 1.26.0
 Pango     : 1.56.1
 PangoCairo: 1.0
 orjson    : 3.10.15

Recommended:
------------
 osmgpsmap : 1.0
 Graphviz  : 12.2
 Ghostscr. : 
 ICU       : 3.13.2
 PyICU     : not found

Optional:
---------
 Gspell     : 1
 RCS        : not found
 PILLOW     : 11.1.0
 GExiv2     : 0.10
 Exiv2 lib. : not found because exiv2 is not installed
 geocodeglib: 1.0

Environment settings:
---------------------
 LANG      : en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE  : en_GB
 GRAMPSI18N: /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/share/locale
 GRAMPSHOME: not set
 GRAMPSDIR : /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gramps
 PYTHONPATH:
    /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gramps
    /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13
    /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/lib-dynload
    /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/site-packages
    /Users/ross/Library/Application Support/gramps/gramps60/plugins/lib

System PATH env variable:
-------------------------
     /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/MacOS
     /Users/ross/.rvm/gems/ruby-3.1.2/bin
     /Users/ross/.rvm/gems/ruby-3.1.2@global/bin
     /Users/ross/.rvm/rubies/ruby-3.1.2/bin
     /Users/ross/.pyenv/shims
     /Users/ross/.yarn/bin
     /Users/ross/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin
     /opt/homebrew/opt/llvm@11/bin
     /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin
     /opt/homebrew/opt/mysql-client@5.7/bin
     /opt/homebrew/opt/node@14/bin
     /opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@1.1/bin
     /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin
     /Users/ross/.poetry/bin
     /Users/ross/.dotnet/tools
     /opt/local/bin
     /opt/local/sbin
     /opt/homebrew/bin
     /opt/homebrew/sbin
     /Users/ross/.cargo/bin
     /Users/ross/.nix-profile/bin
     /etc/profiles/per-user/ross/bin
     /run/current-system/sw/bin
     /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin
     /usr/local/bin
     /usr/bin
     /usr/sbin
     /bin
     /sbin
     /Users/ross/.local/bin
     /Users/ross/.cabal/bin
     /Users/ross/.ghcup/bin
     /Users/ross/.rvm/bin

Databases:
-------------------------
 bsddb     :
     version     : 18.1.13
     db version  : 4.8.30
     location    : /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/site-packages/berkeleydb/__init__.py
 sqlite3   :
     version     : 3.49.1
     location    : /Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.13/sqlite3/__init__.py