getting started on OS X

[Jake MacWilliams]

Hi,

I also have recently downloaded GNU on OS X and am having similar problems to Eric. Frequently I receive the same error message: "file could not obtain the lock for the file" but recently I have simply not been able to open my old files, and it says the file cannot be found, even though I've saved the file minutes ago.

Best,
Jacob MacWilliams

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> On May 4, 2017, at 5:32 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> 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. 
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> 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 
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>  On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 3:45, Eric Theise<erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:   Hi everyone,
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I do not know how to proceed and would appreciate any suggestions or
> pointers, thanks.
> 
> Eric
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