Using 2.4.x and 2.5.x side by side on OS X?

[John Ralls]

On May 14, 2013, at 1:14 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have a quick question: I would like to test out 2.5 on my Mac (Mountain Lion), but I am not sure whether I can run the 2.5 version next to the 2.4 version. If I rename the 2.5 app bundle to Gnucash-2.5.1.app, it asks for admin access to (I believe) change a system setting to point to this bundle. I believe that if I allow the change to occur, that I will encounter problems when I go back to 2.4. 
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> I would like to know if I am right about that, and if I am, then I would like to know whether there is a workaround for this on the Mac.

No, the back links are different for each major version: /Library/Gnucash-2.4 and /Library/Gnucash-2.5 respectively. Just don't try to open the same file from both at once.

Regards,
John Ralls