[GNC] Gnucash won't load

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 07:49:44AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.
> 
It's not that it needs eXecute permission is it?  I believe the Mac's
underlying OS is basically Unix and to allow a program to be run you
need execute permission, just read and write is not enough.

I don't know how you'd set this on Mac though I'm afraid.

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Chris Green