Hi Derek Thank for your prompt reply. OK. So I uninstalled the Gnucash.app with Clean My Mac, and, strangely it left the Icon in the Apps folder, so I removed the Icon to the Bin. I then downloaded the app from the website (clicked Apple Mac OS >- 10.13 High Sierra. In my Downloads is Gnucash-Intel-4.5.dmg. Double clicked it and got
I dragged Gnucash.app to the Apps folder on Dock. And it still won’t load. BUT just noticed in my Apps folder on Finder, it shows Gnucash.app as being 2KB - yes that is 2 kilobytes. I can’t imagine what went wrong! Thanks again for your help. Neil neilcam...@gmail.com > On 30 Apr 2021, at 12:49, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, April 30, 2021 5:49 am, Neil Campbell wrote: >> Good morning. >> >> I downloaded Gnucash for Mac and it is there in my App folder. When I >> double click on it to load it, it gives a brief “sun-burst” but nothing >> happens. I am using OSX ver 10.15.7 (Catalina). I have tried: > > Just to verify, you downloaded the DMG, opened it, and manually copied the > bundle to /Applications? Yes. > >> Loading it from Apps folder using Ctrl Click. The first time I did this it >> asked me if I wanted to load the app and I clicked Yes. Then nothing >> happened. No error message. No nothing. >> >> Using the Terminal with open /applications/gnucash.app. This seems to run >> and then just go back to the curser on the folder that was there. >> >> Security & Privacy allows Mac App Store and identified developers and >> there is no message there to say that it is being stopped from loading. >> >> Finally I ran (in the terminal) /applications/gnucash.app and received the >> following response Permission denied. I then went back to Finder and >> looked at “info” under sharing & permissions and see that it says - You >> can read and write. >> >> I am a loss as to what to do next. Any help will be greatly received. > > Try deleting the app bundle from /Applications, download again, and copy > it again? Maybe something got corrupted? > > If that doesn't work, John will wake up in a couple hours and should be > able to help you more. > > Good Luck! > >> Neil >> neilcam...@gmail.com <mailto:neilcam...@gmail.com> > >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > > -derek > -- > Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 > de...@ihtfp.com <mailto:de...@ihtfp.com> www.ihtfp.com > <http://www.ihtfp.com/> > Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ 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.
