== How to Download and run the binary GRAMPS application for Mac ==
'''Back up your databasesSelect one of [http:''' Unless you've changed the location in Preferences, they're in a hidden folder in your home directory called "//sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/3.2.4/gramps"-3.2. If you already know about such things, great, just copy the "grampsdb" subdirectory somewhere else before starting4-1-intel. If you've never heard of hidden folders, here's how to back it updmg/download Intel] or [http: Select a Finder window and select Go>Go to Folder from the menu//sourceforge. Type "net/Usersprojects/yournamegramps/files/Stable/3.2.4/gramps" in the dialog box that opens up, and click on "Go"-3.2.4-1-ppc.dmg/download PPC]. You'll get a download window. Once it's downloaded (Yesit may take a while, subsitute your userid for "yourname".they're 37M each) A new , you can open the dmg (just double click on it in Finder window will if your browser doesn't open, it automatically) and you can option-drag the grampsdb folder somewhere else for safetyGramps application wherever you like. Once installed on your computer, it opens like any other application.
'''New Version NoticeBack up your databases:''' The If you're using Time Machine, that's already taken care of. (You do test your Time Machine backups periodically, right?) But it doesn't hurt to have a spare copy set aside before starting up a new (version. If you've been using the Gtk-OSX build, version 3.2.4 and or later) builds will default to using your , just copy Library/Application Support/gramps folder, which, if you want to keep your old database and settings, you'll need to create/grampsdb. In this case, open the .gramps folder just like above, but (Right click/option-drag the whole thing to Library/Application Support (the one in your home folder, not the one in your boot drive's click and select "rootMake a copy" directory). Slow-double-click on the new copy so that you can edit the name and delete from the 'menu.' at the beginningIt will be named grampsdb(2).
To run the binary application, visit the [http'''New Version Notice://www''' The new (3.gramps-project2.org4 and later) builds will default to using your Library/appleApplication Support/ download page] and click on the latest download. The download name gramps-x.y.z-macnn-Intel.zip specifies the version of GRAMPS from folder, which the build was made, if you want to keep your old database and a "macsettings, you'll need to create. Unless you'nn've changed the location in Preferences, they're in a hidden folder in your home directory called ".gramps" version which changes whenever . Select a minor bug fix is made Finder window and select Go>Go to Folder from the Apple binarymenu. Type "/Users/yourname/.gramps" in the dialog box that opens up, and the processor click on "Go". (Intel or PPCYes, subsitute your userid for "yourname".) on which the program The hidden folder will runappear, highlighted and open. The grampsOption-x.ydrag the whole thing to Library/Application Support (the one in your home folder, not the one in your boot drive's "root" directory).zSlow-macnndouble-builder.zip files are click on the build environments to build each version from scratch, which new copy so that you can be ignored if only edit the name and delete the binary application is needed'. It's possible to download and run at the binary application beginning to a Mac without any Mac admin privileges, and with a Mac using only the programs supplied straight out of the boxunhide it.
Any browser on the Mac will download the binary application, and depending on how it's configured, uncompress it and store it, usually in the Downloads stack. If it doesn't uncompress (it's still called .zip instead of GRAMPS with a pretty family tree icon) then double-clicking it should turn it into GRAMPS. Like any app bundle, it can be dragged anywhere you like (or even left in your downloads folder).If you drag it to the Dock, it won't move the actual bundle, but you'll always have it available to launch. The GRAMPS application takes its working language from the System Preferences - International (Languages & Text in Snow Leopard) settings. It will search the list in order and select the first one for which there is a Gramps translation. The plugins directory of the .gramps user directory should be visible in Finder using the gramps_user_directory described below for backup. Placing plugins in there should work for most existing plugins, and can be done with the Finder straight from a download.
Double clicking an image in the media reference editor should bring up Apple Preview, or a similar program, to view the image. Clicking the view button in an internet reference should bring up the URL in the default browser. Clicking the Google Maps button in the Places display should bring up the map in the browser.
GRAMPS doesn't use the X11 Mac package. It's useful to install [http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] (or [http://www.neoffice.org NeoOffice], a more mac-friendly version) and [http://www.graphviz.org/ Graphviz] to produce reports, but they are both straightforward.
The spelling checker uses MySpell dictionaries -- the same ones that OpenOffice and NeoOffice use. Unfortunately, they bury them in their application bundles, so you can find them to [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries download here]. You need to install them in /Library/Dictionaries, and you'll need to authenticate as an administrator to do so. If you have one of them installed and know how to make symbolic links from the command line, you'll find them in Contents/share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages, scattered about in the hash-named directories. You'll need to link both the aff and dic files (e.g., en_US.aff and en_US.dic).
== A Note on Backups ==
