[GNC] Gnucash won't load

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Fri, April 30, 2021 5:49 am, Neil Campbell wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> I downloaded Gnucash for Mac and it is there in my App folder. When I
> double click on it to load it, it gives a brief “sun-burst” but nothing
> happens. I am using OSX ver 10.15.7 (Catalina). I have tried:

Just to verify, you downloaded the DMG, opened it, and manually copied the
bundle to /Applications?

> Loading it from Apps folder using Ctrl Click. The first time I did this it
> asked me if I wanted to load the app and I clicked Yes. Then nothing
> happened. No error message. No nothing.
>
> Using the Terminal with open /applications/gnucash.app. This seems to run
> and then just go back to the curser on the folder that was there.
>
> Security & Privacy allows Mac App Store and identified developers and
> there is no message there to say that it is being stopped from loading.
>
> Finally I ran (in the terminal) /applications/gnucash.app and received the
> following response Permission denied. I then went back to Finder and
> looked at “info” under sharing & permissions and see that it says - You
> can read and write.
>
> I am a loss as to what to do next. Any help will be greatly received.

Try deleting the app bundle from /Applications, download again, and copy
it again?  Maybe something got corrupted?

If that doesn't work, John will wake up in a couple hours and should be
able to help you more.

Good Luck!

> Neil
> neilcamp65 at gmail.com

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-derek
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