That’s it! The left double click worked. Thank you!
Julie Bernier
> On May 8, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Adrien Monteleone
> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> First, now that you’ve verified you want to open the app, try opening it with
> a left-click from LaunchPad or left double-click from the Applications
> folder. Be sure not to try launching the app from within bundle. Only launch
> from LaunchPad, the Applications Folder, or your Dock if you’ve placed it
> there. If that still doesn’t work, read on...
>
> --
>
> Since that didn’t work, let’s make sure the download is proper.
>
> This might seem complicated at first, but it is in fact very easy with very
> little typing. (the worst parts you get to drag and drop)
>
> Open Finder to your Downloads folder (or wherever you downloaded the .dmg to)
> and move it to one side.
>
> Open your web browser and move it aside.
>
> Open a Terminal.app window and position it so you can see it with the other
> two windows on the screen. You can find it in Launchpad > Utilities, or use
> Spotlight [CMD-Space] and search for terminal.app and launch it. (It’s also
> in Applications > Utilities from Finder)
>
> At the command prompt (which ends in a ‘$’ sign) type:
>
> openssl sha256
>
> followed by a space, then click and drag the .dmg file from your Downloads
> folder and drop it after that space. (this will copy the full path to where
> that dmg is stored on your machine at the end of the command)
>
> Then type another space and then a “pipe” character (looks like this-> | and
> is located above the enter key, you’ll have to use SHIFT to get it) followed
> by another space, then the word grep followed by another space.
>
> Then in your browser, go to the main project page on SourceForge for GnuCash:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/>
>
> Click the Files tab.
>
> Click ‘gnucash (stable)' folder.
>
> Click the folder for the version you downloaded, in this case, probably the
> ’3.1’ folder.
>
> After the file listing, you’ll see a listing of ‘hashes’ which are long
> strings of letters and numbers with the corresponding file name next to them.
> Find the one for the .dmg you downloaded.
>
> Double-click the hash to select it.
>
> Now, carefully click and drag it onto the terminal.app window. (you can
> alternatively use the right-click menu on the hash to copy, and then again to
> paste at the end of the terminal command)
>
> The final command you’ve created should look like something like this:
>
> openssl sha256 /Users/yourname-here/Downloads/Gnucash-Intel-3.1-2.dmg | grep
> 71d06ea408302defacf08dcc8343ade86eeb2298b8b33e75a6e240754c2faf7f
>
> (that’s really one line, it may or may not wrap depending on how wide your
> terminal.app window is) ‘yourname-here’ would be replaced by the name of the
> logged in user on your Mac. (probably ‘julie’)
>
> Hit ENTER.
>
> After a few seconds or so, you should get a response like this:
>
> SHA256(/Users/yourname-here/Downloads/Gnucash-Intel-3.1-2.dmg)=
> 71d06ea408302defacf08dcc8343ade86eeb2298b8b33e75a6e240754c2faf71
>
> followed by the command prompt.
>
> If all you get is your command prompt back instead, then the hashes don’t
> match. (be sure you copied the right one) You’ll need to try the download
> again and re-verify till they do. You can just hit the up-arrow key in the
> terminal to repeat the last command after the new download, but be sure to
> delete the bad download first or sometimes the file gets renamed with a ‘-1’
> or something similar after it and the command will give you a “no such file
> or directory” error.
>
> --
>
> Okay, that looked really technical, but wasn’t too hard to pull off. What you
> did was run a command to calculate the hash of the already downloaded file
> and then compare it to the one it was supposed to calculate. If they matched,
> it spat the hash back at you. If they didn’t, it does nothing. A matching
> hash means your download was complete and uncorrupted. (there really should
> be a simpler way to do this, I admit)
>
> If the hashes matched and you still can’t get it to open after dropping the
> GnuCash.app in the Applications folder and right-clicking to open and confirm
> followed by a left-click to launch normally, then I’m stumped.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
>> On May 8, 2018, at 12:36 PM, jnbernier <jnbern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adrien,
>> Responses are below
>>
>> Julie Bernier
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 8, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Adrien Montele