Installation problem

[Maurice O'Grady]

Thanks, Derek. Answers below in red.

Screenshot attached, again.


mogrady at me.com





> On 20 Jul 2016, at 18:57, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, July 20, 2016 1:38 pm, Maurice O'Grady wrote:
>> Thank you, Derek, for you very prompt reply.
>> 
>> I had actually done what you suggest, and while it moved the app to the
>> Applications folder, the attached screenshot shows the result of then
>> trying to open the app.
> 
> Again, your screenshot didn't make it through the mailman list server.
> 
> Are you RUNNING it from the /Apps folder? Trying to!  Or are you trying to run it
> from the DMG? No.
> 
>> In fact this happened some months ago when I tried installing an earlier
>> version of Gnucash, but I hadn’t time then to follow up on the problem.
>> (I’ve been using this great software for many years, and was surprised to
>> find any installation problem).
> 
> There are, sometimes, installer bugs..
> 
>> 
>> 
>> mogrady at me.com
> 
> -derek
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 20 Jul 2016, at 18:24, Maurice O'Grady <mogrady at me.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sorry! Forgot attachment.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> mogrady at me.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>> From: Maurice O'Grady <mogrady at me.com>
>>>> Subject: Installation problem
>>>> Date: 20 July 2016 at 18:19:35 IST
>>>> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>>> 
>>>> Hello:
>>>> 
>>>> I downloaded and opened Gnucash-Intel-2.6.13-1.dmg.
>>>> While it works perfectly, the app is not placed in the Applications
>>>> folder, but remains in the Devices folder, as shown in the attached
>>>> screenshot.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I get it to do a normal install, please?
>>>> 
>>>> Maurice O’Grady
>>>> mogrady at me.com
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