Installing 2.3.16.dmg

[John Ralls]

On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:09 PM, David T. wrote:

> I am again hankering for some of the features in the development version of Gnucash (currently at 2.3.17), and wanted to ask a few Mac-specific questions...
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> 1) The disk image includes a couple of introductory apps to help the transition (UpdateDirs.app and FinanceQuote Update.app). I read the readme file and took a look at the scripts behind these. As far as I can tell, these routines don't do anything to my machine that would render impossible a return to 2.2.9 if needed, but I want to verify that with y'all before I bollix something up.
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> 2) Is it possible to rename my current Gnucash.app to Gnucash-2.2.9.app, copy the devel version as Gnucash.app, and have it run reliably? If I need to go back to 2.2.9, can I simply change the names around and run okay? More simply, can I have a Gnucash-2.2.9.app and a Gnucash-2.3.17.app co-reside in my Applications folder without trouble?
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That's correct, the update script is non-destructive so that it won't mess up your 2.2.9 installation. 

For the most part renaming apps in OSX is unwise: There's a fair amount of magic in things like scripting and launching apps with Finder's "Open With" that depends on the app name. But Gnucash doesn't use any of that stuff, so it's probably OK.

Just remember that changes to (some [1]) preferences and online banking settings in one version won't be seen in the other, so you'll have to do things like that twice. Be mindful that while both versions can read and save xml files, only 2.3 can read and save databases. 

Regards,
John Ralls