getting started on OS X

[Eric Theise]

P.S. Thanks, too, David T!

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for your help. AQBanking in GnuCash 2.6.15 doesn't crash but I
> still ran up against my timebox trying to get it configured and learned to
> be content downloading and working with QXF files today.
>
> On its own, GnuCash seems stable.
>
> Thanks, Eric
>
>
> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:34 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
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>> > On May 3, 2017, at 8:32 PM, David T. via gnucash-user <
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> It crashes for me, too, in AQBanking's setup on pressing New User. That's
>> an AQBanking bug.
>>
>> The easiest workaround would be to download GnuCash 2.6.15 which uses an
>> older version of AQBanking, set up your online accounts, and then switch
>> back to 2.6.16.
>>
>> But before you bother you should make sure that your banks use OFX
>> DirectConnect. Many use OFX WebConnect and AQBanking doesn't; in those
>> cases you'll have to download OFX/QFX or QIF files (not QXF) from the
>> website and import them using File>Import.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>>
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