[GNC] Upgrade Path from version 2.6.16 on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and beyond

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 28 09:33:02 EST 2019



> On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> It’s not clear whether “data files” is meant to refer to *your* data files, or *the application’s.* Adrien is right that you can easily load multiple versions of the application simply by naming one “Gnucash 2.6.19.app” and the other “Gnucash 3.4.app”  That is what I have done; I’ve also put both on my dock and use them regularly.
>> 
>> Both of them, however, will default to opening the same data file, again since the same configuration files are used. You could work around this by installing the different versions under different users on MacOS.
> 
> I did this as well when 3.x came out.
> 
> Here was my workflow for installation:
> 
> Download both versions.
> 
> Open GnuCash 2.6.19.dmg, rename Gnucash.app to Gnucash-2.app, drag it to /Applications
> 
> Open GnuCash 3.x and drag it to /Applications
> 
> This produced two ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash folders, one for each version, so my configurations were not the same (I made them so eventually) and my data file pointer was different because I intentionally first opened different files with each version.
> 

Interesting. I dragged to Applications and THEN renamed, which resulted in only one Gnucash config folder. Wish I’d thought of that!

David


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list