> On 28 Jan 2019, at 16:15, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:47 AM, Adrien Monteleone >> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >> >> A developer could chime in but my recollection from when this arose last >> year or so is, “no.” If it were critical to run a 32-bit version, you’ll >> need a VM running an older version of MacOS. (note that is against the Apple >> TOS) > > If there's sufficient demand this summer I might be persuaded to build a > 64-bit 2.6.21 bundle, but I'd really prefer people to move to GnuCash 3 if > for no other reason than that Gtk2 isn't getting much attention as Apple > changes APIs. > > It used to be against Apple's license to run MacOS X in a VM, but they > removed that restriction in 10.7. VMWare Fusion and Parallels both work quite > well. I have a large collection of MacOS VMs and build the GnuCash MacOS > bundles on a 10.9 VM to ensure that it will work for users who haven't been > updating their OS. > > Regards, > John Ralls >
Thanks to John, Adrien and David T for all of their comments. My iMac is a 64-bit machine, so there will be no problem in running 64-bit software. The “file” command tells me that Gnucash-bin is a "Mach-O executable i386” file, i.e. 32-bit, so it won’t be useable when MacOS goes 64-bit only. My plan is therefore: 1. Download and install 2.6.21 - I’m assuming from what John said above that the only version currently available as a DMG is 32-bit. 2. Use this to open experimental copies of current .gnucash files to ensure nothing unexpected turns up. 3. Run a month or so in parallel using 2.6.16 and 2.6.21 on separate sets of .gnucash files before abandoning 2.6.16. 4. Download and install 3.4 (64-bit) and repeat 1, 2 and 3. Alternatively, I could run through the staged upgrade in Ubuntu 18.04 on a VM on my Mac, which would isolate my live data from accidental damage. Further questions: 1. What happens to existing reports when a new version is installed? e.g. are they overwritten or preserved by renaming? 2. Would it be safe to assume that a successful upgrade on Ubuntu would mean there wouldn't be a problem on MacOS? (there seems to be a lot of traffic on the the list about 3.4 MacOS crashing). Michael _______________________________________________ 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.
