Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.8 Release

[John Ralls]

On Oct 23, 2011, at 4:41 PM, suk wah bernstein wrote:

> regarding downloading gnucash 2.4.8. need to quit gnucash before i can drag gnucash icon into app folder. but in the Accounts window, icon for Close is greyed out. for caution of losing any data i don't want to quit before checking in with you. thanks.
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> respect
> suk wah
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> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:29 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:27 PM, suk wah bernstein wrote:
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> > i installed gnucash 2.4.7 a month ago on mac os x 10.6.8. do i need to
> > update to 2.4.8? if yes, how? just hit download  ? thanks.
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> Just repeat what you did with 2.4.7: Download it from sourceforge (use the link on www.gnucash.org), open the dmg, and drag gnucash to /Applications.
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> Please do make sure that you keep your data file somewhere not in your Library folder; because of the log and backup files, you might prefer to keep it in a separate folder (I use Documents/Accounts) to keep the clutter out of your home folder. If you do move it, you'll have to use File>Open again to open it.

The icon for close is greyed out because you don't have anything selected that you can close (like a register window). It won't let you close the chart-of-accounts page.

However, I did forget to tell you a step that will also stop you from being able to copy in the new Gnucash: There's going to be a dbus-daemon instance still running. The easiest way to get rid of it is to open Applications:Utilities:Activity Monitor, search for "dbus" (no quotes, the search box is in the usual place), highlight the line (there should be only one, but if there are more,  select each in turn) and click on the red stopsign, then "quit" from the drop-down. When there aren't any more dbus-daemons running you can replace the old Gnucash with the new one.

Regards,
John Ralls