Gnucash won't open

[Robert Kesterson]

I’m not sure what you mean by attempts to verify, but GnuCash should 
run just fine on OS/X (though not on iOS, but I assume that’s a typo 
if you’re running on a Macbook Pro, which runs OS/X).

Here’s what I’d do:

First, open your system preferences and hit “security and privacy”.  
Then hit “general”.  At the bottom should be a section that says 
“Allow apps downloaded from:” with three choices.  Make sure the 
“Mac App Store and identified developers” option is selected.  (If 
the three choices are visible but disabled, you may need to unlock the 
screen to make any changes.  Just click the lock in the lower left 
corner and enter your password when it prompts you.)  Then close the 
system preferences app.   Now try again to open GnuCash.

If it still doesn’t open, try opening your applications folder in 
finder, hold down the “control” key, and click the GnuCash icon.  A 
shortcut menu should appear.  Choose “open”.  Then a dialog should 
appear asking what you want to do.  Again click “Open”.  GnuCash 
should then start.  (See Apple’s instructions on this at 
https://support.apple.com/kb/ph18657 )

If even that doesn’t work, then maybe opening it from a terminal would 
reveal something, but I am not sure about that.  You can open it from a 
terminal by first opening the terminal app and then typing this at the 
prompt:

/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash

That assumes you installed it in /Applications, which seems likely.  You 
can also open it by typing

open /Applications/Gnucash.app

in the terminal.  I don’t know if one way is better or different than 
the other as far as any information it might report.


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   Robert Kesterson
   robertk at robertk.com

On 20 Jan 2016, at 17:37, Nina Rehrig wrote:

> Version 2.6.11 will not open on my macbook air.
> When iOS attempts to verify, nothing happens.  Suggestions?
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