That “Drag to Applications” thingy you see on some apps is a sort of visual
’trick’ - nothing fancy.
You can set a background to any finder window.
You can have a link to a location (shortcut).
If you drag an item onto a link, Finder will copy the item to the link’s
ultimate real location.
Wh
The installation for Gnucash is like many other Mac apps that I've loaded that
had a dmg file that opened up, and the user was expected to drag the app into
the Applications folder. Someone must have felt this was a common enough
practice to obviate the need for explanation.
Unfortunately, addi
Actually, it was the lack of instruction that was confusing. When I
double-clicked on the Volume, it opened a window with the program and other
support files. And that was it. Most usually, there is either an
instruction to drag the file into the Applications folder or an installer
runs. Since neit
Friends,
I am pleased to report that, acting upon the suggestions, instructions, and
advice that many of you offered in response to the note I sent to the list
yesterday (Sunday, 2 December 2018), my wife has successfully installed
GnuCash on her Mac. To her it seemed that she had done all of thes
Gerry,
I'm curious what installation instructions were confusing?
David T
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:12, Gerry Starnes wrote:
Actually I’m a MacHead. =) The GnuCash installation is not clear and different
programs install differently. It doesn’t do the usual “Drag this to
Applications” k
Will do. Yes, that would be simpler, but the sun is more likely to rise in
the western sky tomorrow morning. I will have to represent her here in the
hope of finding a solution and installing GnuCash successfully on her Mac.
Thanks, Jules
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 12:07 AM John Ralls
wrote:
> Plea
Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
Perhaps it would be simpler if your wife joined the list?
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Dec 3, 2018, at 3:49 PM, Jules Levinson wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I will relay this information to my wife. I don't know what version of the
> MacOS is running on h
Actually I’m a MacHead. =)The GnuCash installation is not clear and
different programs install differently. It doesn’t do the usual “Drag this to
Applications” kind of instruction. Some open source programs use a variety of
installation procedures. Just glad I figured it out.
Dave,
I'm pretty sure Gerry was not talking about configuration files. His references
to folders in Applications suggests that. The terminology he uses suggests he
is more familiar with Windows or Linux than the Mac, since (as John notes
elsewhere) the only installation one needs to do for Gnuca
> On Dec 3, 2018, at 2:17 AM, Jules Levinson 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 Ma
On a Mac, the Gnucash support files are either in the app bundle itself, or in
~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, so it takes a little work to move them
from Windows/Linux to a Mac.
--
Dave Reiser
dbrei...@icloud.com
> On Dec 2, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Gerry Starnes wrote:
>
> I had the same
Thanks to everyone who is trying to help us install GnuCash. Never having
used a Mac, and also never having had any trouble with GnuCash on Windows
(I am no fan of Windows, but GnuCash does run on my machines without
difficulty), I am surprised to learn that others have experienced
such issues and
I was having the same issues no matter where I put it. I was able to
finally get it to run by dragging it to the dock and then launching. Works
fine for me now.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 2:16 PM Gerry Starnes wrote:
> I had the same problem with 3.3. I had to add a couple of steps though.
>
> 1) re
I had the same problem with 3.3. I had to add a couple of steps though.
1) renamed the old folder in Applications to GnuCash 2.2
2) created a new folder for GnuCash 3.3 in the Applications folder.
3) copied all of the files in the window that opened when I double clicked
the installer volume to th
On Dec 2, 2018, at 12:17 PM, Jules Levinson 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 t
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Jules Levinson 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 a
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 tha
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
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