getting started on OS X

[Eric Theise]

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping GnuCash will replace the increasingly abysmal Quicken in my
life. I've installed the latest disk image on my OS 10.12.4 system and
seemingly successfully imported a .qif file, but I have questions.

So far I find the software crashes frequently. Upon restarting, I get the
"GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file:[url]" message and am
proceeding with "Open Anyway". I presume this is my best option?

I am unclear about how much functionality I should expect from Online
Banking. I have checking, savings, and credit card accounts with major US
banks and I would like to be able to fetch transactions periodically. I am
unclear about how to set up this up.

When I "Start AqBanking Wizard"
- "Create User" crashes the program. Utterly.
- "Create Account" gives me "Select Backend" window with an empty dropdown
list of "Backend"s to choose from. This seems wrong.

I did not think it would be necessary but I tried installing aqbanking via
Homebrew. It seems to have made no difference, and while the page at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/AqBanking talks about using aqhbci-tool, the
version I installed via brew only surfaces aqhbci-tool4 which does not take
the same arguments.

I do not know how to proceed and would appreciate any suggestions or
pointers, thanks.

Eric