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The pre-built Gramps application doesn't work on earlier versions of Mac OS X, because it needs WebKitGtk, and that doesn't work on earlier operating systems. Versions of Gramps before 3.3.1 runs correctly didn't work on Lion. Earlier versions do not, except for a special beta package provided as an interim measure. All Lion users should upgrade to 3.3.1 as soon as pracicalpractical.
'''Back up your databases:''' 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 or later, just copy Library/Application Support/gramps/grampsdb. (Right click/option click and select "Make a copy" from the menu. It will be named grampsdb(2). '''New Version Notice:''' If you are upgrading from the pre-built Gramps Application version 3.2.3 or earlier (or a build from source version) and you want to keep your old database and settings, you'll need to create a Library/Application Support/gramps folder with your existing data in it. Unless you've changed the location in Preferences, the data is in a hidden folder in your home directory called ".gramps". Select a Finder window and select Go>Go to Folder from the menu. Type "/Users/yourname/.gramps" in the dialog box that opens up, and click on "Go". (Yes, subsitute your userid for "yourname".) The hidden folder will appear, highlighted and open. Option-drag the whole thing to Library/Application Support (the one in your home folder, not the one in your boot drive's "root" directory). Slow-double-click on the new copy so that you can edit the name and delete the '.' at the beginning to unhide it. ==Installing Gramps = How to = '''Download :''' Select one of [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/ Intel] or [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/files/Stable/ PPC]. You'll get a download window. Once it's downloaded, you can open the dmg (just double click on it in Finder if your browser doesn't open it automatically) and run drag the binary Gramps application wherever you like. Once installed on your computer, it opens like any other application. '''Links with other programs:''' 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 application for doesn't use the X11 Mac package. It's useful to install [http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ LibreOffice], [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra] (or [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice], a more mac-friendly version) to work on your reports after saving them from Gramps. == What goes where ==
'''File structure:''' GRAMPS database and settings files can be found at the following places in the Mac file system (GRAMPS Version 3.2.5 and later):<br>
* Start-up settings for GRAMPS (for e. g. the environment variable LANG) can be accessed through Gramps.app (generally in /Applications): Right click on "Gramps.app", select "Show Package Content" from the menu, the start-up settings are found in the file Contents/MacOS/Gramps.
'''Language:''' Normally, GRAMPS sets up languages and formats from system preferences (Language and Text on Snow Leopard and Lion; Internationalization on Leopard). There are three main settings: On the first pane (Languages) is a list of languages. GRAMPS will go down the list and select the first one for which it has a translation to select the language in which all menus, labels, and messages are presented. On the right side of that pane at the bottom is an "Order for Sorted Lists" listbox which sets the way that lists are alphabetically sorted. Finally, in the third pane (Formats) one can select a country which determines things like month and day names, whether a comma, dot, or space is used to separate thousands or decimal fractions, and so on.
defaults delete -app Gramps AppleLanguages (or AppleLocale or AppleCollation).
[[Howto:Change the language of reports]] has more information on language features in Gramps. When reading it, remember that AppleLanugages AppleLanguages (which corresponds to the language list on the Languages & Text system preference pane) sets the LANGUAGE environment variable and AppleLocale (Formats in the Languages & Test pane) sets the LANG variable.
'''Links with other programsDictionaries:''' Double clicking an image in The spelling checker uses MySpell dictionaries -- the media reference editor should bring up Apple Previewsame ones that [http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ LibreOffice] and NeoOffice use. Unfortunately, or a similar programthey bury them in their application bundles, so you can download them [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries here]. You need to view the imageinstall them in /Library/Dictionaries, and you'll need to authenticate as an administrator to do so. Clicking If you have one of them installed and know how to make symbolic links from the view button command line, you'll find them in an internet reference should bring up the URL Contents/share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages, scattered about in the default browserhash-named directories. Clicking You'll need to link both the Google Maps button in the Places display should bring up the map in the browseraff and dic files (e.g., en_US.aff and en_US.dic).
=== If something seems to go wrong ===
You'll find error messages in the console log, which you can view with /Applications/Utilities/Console.app
All of the known bugs in 3.1.2 have been corrected in 3.2.4 and later. There will no doubt be new ones; report them in the usual way on [http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/my_view_page.php Mantis] ([[Using the bug tracker]] instructions). When reporting what you're sure is an OSX specific bug, please set the Platform field to "mac" (no quotes, caps, or spaces!) so that I can find it easily.
The 3.1.2 bugs are described at [[Mac OS X:Build from source:gtk-osx:bugs]].
==Updates==
GRAMPS stores all its internal data in ~/Library/Application Support. So, to upgrade a Gramps application bundle to a newer version, just throw the old application in the Trash. Make a backup copy of your data, just in case, then download the new version of the application and just use it. If you don't like the new version and want the old one back, throw the new version in the Trash and fetch the old one back from the Trash. The Gramps version is shown in Finder if you use column view; otherwise right click on it and select Get Info.
