Jules The answer is that you have to drag the dmg file ( system image file) to the applications folder. That is what installs it as an app. see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/64845/how-do-i-install-applications-from-a-dmg-file I am currently engaged in a very similar process - except that I am migrating from PC to Mac. I have had a lot of good help from other users on the forum, but this thing about dragging the file was a little extra thing that I found out after experiencing the same problem as your wife. I should add that I found other problems, which you may or may not experience - they may have been because of some mistake I made or because migrating a PC file causes a problem which you would not get if starting from scratch. But I found mac gnucash 3.3 kept crashing. I deleted everything and installed 2.6.21 this afternoon. It appears stable and has now run for a few hours. I should stress that I am not an expert on this at all but I hope this helps. Regards Richard
<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 17:21, Jules Levinson <juleslevin...@comcast.net> wrote: > I have used GnuCash for many years, but only on Windows. My wife has > decided to give GnuCash a try. She uses a Mac. I've never used one. > > She downloaded the current *.dmg file from the website and then did > whatever one does on a Mac to install an application. Several times. Many > times. Installation failed, always in the same way, leaving her with, at > best, an icon for GnuCash but unable to open the program. Unfamiliar with > the Mac, I am unable to help her. I hope someone on this list will be able > to assist me to assist her. > > In search of information, I stumbled across a few forums and queries. One > resembled her experience closely: > > "The installation process appears to go normally, there's the usual warning > about 'Opening' a file downloaded from the internet and the GNUCash icon is > seen 'bouncing' up & down on the lower docking bar, but after you 'click' > Open the GNUCash icon disappears and the installation process halts - > nothing! No GNUCash. I've tried several fresh downloads and repeated the > same installation process without success." > > I read this to her. She replied, "That is what is happening on my > computer." > > Thanks for whatever help you can offer us. > > Jules B. Levinson > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
