[GNC] Gnucash won't open
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sat Sep 22 23:38:41 EDT 2018
At Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Alison Fox <ajfox at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> It works now. Although I had placed Gnucash.dmg in the Application folder, it still didn't work - I would go to open and the app icon would disappear. That is when I reached out to the group for advice.Â
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> Once I followed your debug advice, I opened Gnucash from the Applications folder (through Finder) - all my files appeared. Then I dragged a copy of the application onto my Dock and now I can open Gnucash directly by clicking on that icon.Â
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> I hope this explanation makes sense.   Thanks again.
My *guess* is that the original icon you had in the launcher pointed to the
dmg folder. Then you created an icon from the program under Applications,
which did (and does) work.
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> On Saturday, September 22, 2018, 9:25:35 PM EDT, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> So it launches from the command line but not from Finder? That's not good. Please run Applications:Utilities:Console and select "User Reports" in the sidebar and see if there are any reports whose name begins with "Gnucash".
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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> > On Sep 22, 2018, at 6:12 PM, Alison Fox <ajfox at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> > Thank you. Your suggestion (see below) for going to Applications and and adding the prompt did work. Below, to remind everyone, is your suggestion.
> >
> >Â try opening Applications:Utilities:Terminal and at the prompt typing
> >Â /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug
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> > Thanks again.
> >
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> > On Saturday, September 22, 2018, 8:35:02 PM EDT, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> > > On Sep 22, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Alison Fox via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > > Hoping someone can help me. I am on a MacAir running MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.4
> > > When I went to open Gnucash, it will not open. I tried several ways, but it says the software may not be compatible. I downloaded the latest version. It downloads and I saved and open the application. It verifies it and then asks if I want to open it even thought from Internet. I say yes. It looks like the icon is bouncing and about to open, but then it simply vanishes.
> > > I can't get my files and I can't open the older version or the one I just downloaded. Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> > It's not clear from your description that you dragged Gnucash.app out of the dmg folder to somewhere else (usually the main Applications folder). If you didn't, do so.
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> > The next thing to check is the trace file (see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Trace_File). If there are no errors there, try opening Applications:Utilities:Terminal and at the prompt typing
> >Â /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug
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> > See if it displays anything to the terminal window; it will also write a much larger trace file that might shed some light on the problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
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> >
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