Probably also a good idea to post something along the lines of "I'm migrating from software package xyz to gnucash - any suggestions on the best way to do this?" Plenty here have migrated from the likes of Quicken/Quickbooks etc. They'll generally tell you to start small with perhaps a month's worth of txns for maybe one account at a time to train the importer so that it gets better and better at recognising your txns and the accounts they go to. You can also just create a test gnucash file to see how things go and blow it away later if it's not working out well :-)
Cheers David H. On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 06:43, Adrien Monteleone < adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > > > > On 12/18/22 2:20 PM, Eric Chapman wrote: > > Hi, everyone, > > > > I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in > > on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to > > migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac. > > > > I have some questions: > > > > (1) Is it likely that Gnucash will be made available for M1 and M2 Macs > > in the future? From what I can tell, it is for Intel Macs only, so if > > there is no future for the later ones, maybe I should not go this route. > > GnuCash already runs on the M1. (that doesn't mean it is optimized for > it, but it should run at least as well if not better than on Intel as > most other pre-M1 apps do.) > > > > > (2) I read much of the README.TXT file. With the .dmg file I downloaded > > install everything I need or do the instructions under "Dependencies" > > and "Building and Installing" mean that I have to start with getting all > > that stuff on the Mac first? > > That is for building from source. You can ignore it as you already have > a working copy. > > However, the dmg does not have the handy shortcuts many other dmgs do. > You need to drag the GnuCash.app from the dmg to your Applications > folder. (either system-wide or per-user as desired) > > Then from the Applications folder, right-click and choose Open. MacOS > will ask if you are sure you want to open it. Confirm you do. It may or > may not open at this point. (it does for some, not for others, and I'm > not sure why.) > > Simply run the app as normal from here on out. Put it in your Dock if > you like. > > One final note - GnuCash opens the last used file. On Mac, > double-clicking a data file does *not* open what you double-clicked. > GnuCash will still just open that last used file. This is only important > if you end up with multiple data files. > > To open a different file on MacOS, always start GnuCash then use File > > Open. > > > (3) Is there a "New User Guide" somewhere on the web that can be > > accessed? Tutorials? > > Both the Help and the Tutorial & Concepts Guide are on the GnuCash.org > website for online viewing as well as individual downloads in several > formats, both should also be accessible from the Help menu within the > app, and there is also wiki.gnucash.org, as well as this mailing list. > > Welcome to GnuCash! > > Regards, > Adrien > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
