GnuCash is signed with an Apple certificate and beginning with the next release will be notarized as well, so it shouldn't need to be opened with a right click. The problem seems to be that there's something about the way Gatekeeper starts it after verifying that doesn't quite work so it needs to be restarted that one time.
Regards, John Ralls > On Aug 8, 2019, at 10:43 PM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > Dion, > > You shouldn’t need to turn off Gatekeeper. > > Some apps, of which GnuCash is one, needs to be given explicit permission to > open. > > This is accomplished by launching it for the very first time, by > right-clicking on it in the install location (usually /Applications) and > choosing ‘open’. > > This will provide a dialog to verify that you want to open this app which was > downloaded from the internet. > > Click to open it. > > It might or might not launch, but any subsequent launch, should work. And all > of this with Gatekeeper still active. > > Mileage may vary however. > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 8, 2019, at 10:02 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the follow-up, but please remember to copy the list on all >> replies. MacOS Mail's "reply all" (double-back-arrow icon) works great for >> this purpose. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >>> On Aug 8, 2019, at 6:47 PM, Dion Patelis <d...@7rocks.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> Firstly sorry for the late reply and thank you for your lightening fast >>> reply. I have 150ish emails come in from the GNUcash mailing list and only >>> just today decided to filter to see if there was a reply. >>> >>> Just reloaded >>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg >>> for you this morning. >>> >>> Ansering your quesitons: >>> >>> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? >>> Will answer in your Q's below. >>> Like does it display anything? >>> Nothing, except in Activity Monitor. >>> Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you cmd-tab? >>> No and No. >>> If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? >>> See previous answer. >>> Does Activity Monitor show any resource usage? >>> 0% CPU >>> 8kb Memory >>> Did you try relaunching it after GateKeeper verified it and failed to start >>> it, as GateKeeper so often does? >>> I just turned off Gatekeeper from 'System Preferences' --> 'Security >>> and Privacy' --> 'Allow apps to download from - anywhere' --> and it opened. >>> >>> Thank you. I will start using it and see how it goes. If you don't get a >>> reply, it should be all good. >>> >>> Thank you John. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 30/07/2019 3:11 pm, John Ralls wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Jul 29, 2019, at 8:13 PM, Dion Patelis <d...@7rocks.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm using Mac OSX 10.10.4 (14E46) and when I install both >>>>> >>>>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg >>>>> and >>>>> Gnucash-Intel-3.6-2.dmg >>>>> >>>>> it says that the process is running in the Activity Monitor, but I can't >>>>> get anything to happen. >>>>> >>>>> I went back to >>>>> Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-3.dmg >>>>> and it works fine. >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have any ideas on this or should I just compile it from >>>>> scratch? >>>>> >>>> Could you describe what's going on in a little more detail? Like does it >>>> display anything? Does it show up in the Dock and the icons when you >>>> cmd-tab? If so and you switch to it does it change the menu bar? Does >>>> Activity Monitor show any resource usage? Did you try relaunching it after >>>> GateKeeper verified it and failed to start it, as GateKeeper so often does? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
