[GNC] New User: initial help getting up and running

[David H]

Probably also a good idea to post something along the lines of "I'm
migrating from software package xyz to gnucash - any suggestions on the
best way to do this?"  Plenty here have migrated from the likes of
Quicken/Quickbooks etc.  They'll generally tell you to start small with
perhaps a month's worth of txns for maybe one account at a time to train
the importer so that it gets better and better at recognising your txns and
the accounts they go to.  You can also just create a test gnucash file to
see how things go and blow it away later if it's not working out well :-)

Cheers David H.


On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 06:43, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

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> On 12/18/22 2:20 PM, Eric Chapman wrote:
> > Hi, everyone,
> >
> > I just downloaded Gnucash-Intel-4.12-1.dmg for Mac. I plan to install in
> > on Ventura (MacOS 13.1) on a late 2018 Mac Mini (Intel). I'm trying to
> > migrate from another software on a Windows virtual machine on the Mac.
> >
> > I have some questions:
> >
> > (1) Is it likely that Gnucash will be made available for M1 and M2 Macs
> > in the future? From what I can tell, it is for Intel Macs only, so if
> > there is no future for the later ones, maybe I should not go this route.
>
> GnuCash already runs on the M1. (that doesn't mean it is optimized for
> it, but it should run at least as well if not better than on Intel as
> most other pre-M1 apps do.)
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> >
> > (2) I read much of the README.TXT file. With the .dmg file I downloaded
> > install everything I need or do the instructions under "Dependencies"
> > and "Building and Installing" mean that I have to start with getting all
> > that stuff on the Mac first?
>
> That is for building from source. You can ignore it as you already have
> a working copy.
>
> However, the dmg does not have the handy shortcuts many other dmgs do.
> You need to drag the GnuCash.app from the dmg to your Applications
> folder. (either system-wide or per-user as desired)
>
> Then from the Applications folder, right-click and choose Open. MacOS
> will ask if you are sure you want to open it. Confirm you do. It may or
> may not open at this point. (it does for some, not for others, and I'm
> not sure why.)
>
> Simply run the app as normal from here on out. Put it in your Dock if
> you like.
>
> One final note - GnuCash opens the last used file. On Mac,
> double-clicking a data file does *not* open what you double-clicked.
> GnuCash will still just open that last used file. This is only important
> if you end up with multiple data files.
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> To open a different file on MacOS, always start GnuCash then use File >
> Open.
>
> > (3) Is there a "New User Guide" somewhere on the web that can be
> > accessed? Tutorials?
>
> Both the Help and the Tutorial & Concepts Guide are on the GnuCash.org
> website for online viewing as well as individual downloads in several
> formats, both should also be accessible from the Help menu within the
> app, and there is also wiki.gnucash.org, as well as this mailing list.
>
> Welcome to GnuCash!
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
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