[GNC] Gnucash 4.0 doesn't launch on MacOS X 10.15.4

[peterb]

Agreed, it absolutely should.  Alton's theory was that something about
having both installed was confusing something.  All I know if it didn't
work until I deleted my old installation.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 5:08 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Normally works for me just doing steps 4, 5, 6 :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 06:42, peterb <peterb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got this working thanks to some out-of-band advice from Alton Brantley
>> (thanks!).  We might consider documenting this if it happens to more
>> people
>> on Catalina besides him and me.
>>
>> (1) Save copy of file in 3.10.
>> (2) Delete old copy of Gnucash from hard drive.
>> (3) I deleted ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash (probably unnecessary,
>> but I was being paranoid).
>> (4) Copy GnuCash 4.0 from disk image to /Applications
>> (5) Double-click GnuCash 4.0 in /Applications.  Choose "Open" when the OS
>> asks you if you're sure you want to open.
>>
>> At that point, the app still doesn't seem to launch, though it should.
>> However subsequent launches work as expected, so:
>>
>> (6) Double-click GnuCash 4.0 in /Applications again.
>>
>> At that point 4.0 launched and ran for me.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:18 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>> > That's unfortunately a pretty common user experience on Mac. I haven't
>> > been able to figure out where is the disconnect between Launch Services
>> and
>> > GnuCash after Gatekeeper verification is complete. Gatekeeper also
>> fails to
>> > remove the com.apple.quarantine xattr from the app bundle and that
>> caused a
>> > complete failure for one user last week, though it doesn't seem to
>> affect
>> > most users.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:56 AM, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Ditto on Mac OS 10.15.5. Opened without issues.
>> > > The first time it asked for the standard permission to open since it
>> > didn't come from the App Store.
>> > > But it didn't open.
>> > > Then I opened it again and it was fine.
>> > >
>> > > Will
>> > >
>> > > On 2020 Jun 29, at 06-29 11:08:57, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I'm on 10.13.4 (High Sierra) and it launches without any problem.
>> > > J
>> > >
>> > > On 6/29/20 7:58 AM, peterb wrote:
>> > >> ...or at least, not on my instance of it.  No particular user-visible
>> > error
>> > >> message, no splash screen visible, lots of stuff in the console.
>> Happy
>> > to
>> > >> file a bug or share whatever data might help.
>> > >> Is anyone else seeing this, or am I unique?
>> > >> -P
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