getting started on OS X

[David T.]

Eric, 
Welcome to gnucash. 
First off, gnucash in general shouldn't be crashing; is it consistently crashing in the same place, or is it in different places? I seem to recall seeing something about trouble with setting up aqbanking in recent times, and you may be hitting that. 

Second, when gnucash crashes, you will get the message you report, so that is expected behavior. This is described in the FAQ. FAQ - GnuCash  
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As for online access, I have used gnucash for over a decade. I never used the online interactive features, but I have imported downloaded qif and ofx files consistently without problems. There are extensive discussions about this on the list that can further inform you. 
Using Brew should not be necessary, but someone else might have better information. 
Cheers,David 

 
  On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:45, Eric Theise<erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:   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 sof tware 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
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