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After download: Double-click the .dmg file to mount the disk (note: your browser may do this for you automatically). Next, drag the Gramps application to your application folder and double-click to launch it. (For Apple Mac OS X, alternatively, you can click and hold on the disk icon at the top of the window of the mounted disk, and then option-drag to the Applications folder. This will create a new folder containing all the files, including the README and NEWS.)
Normally, when you try to load your old Family Tree you can allow it to be upgraded if necessary, and it will be opened. Should this fail for any reason, '''Create''' a new Family Tree and [[How_to_restore_a_backup|'''Import''' the back-up]] into this new Tree.
=== Alternative independent installation Adding additional Spell Checking languages on macOS ==={{man tip|[[FileMac_OS_X:Gramps-release.pngApplication_package#Dictionaries|leftSpell Checking:]]Alternatively|Gramps uses a different spell checker than the one provided by Mac OS X, Gramps with different spelling dictionary requirements. We can also be built 't easily provide dictionaries for all of the supported languages in the bundle, but they're easily downloaded from [https://extensions.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org's website]. Download the language you want and save it, then navigate to the download in Finder. Most browsers have a downloads window that offers "Show in Finder" in its context menu. Change the file extension from <tt>oxt</tt> to <tt>zip</tt>, then from the context menu select '''Open with... Archive Utility''' to decompress it. In the decompressed folder or perhaps in a subfolder you'll find the dictionary files in pairs, <tt>foo.aff</tt> and <tt>foo.dic</tt>. Some languages have more than one pair with a README file to explain why. Select a pair and copy it to /Library/Dictionaries (you'll have to authenticate with an administrator id and password), and if 'foo' isn't already a language or locale code, make it one. For example, the French package includes several pairs with names like <tt>fr-moderne.aff</tt> and <tt>fr-moderne.dic</tt>. The spell checker doesn't recognize those names, so when you copy them to /Library/Dictionaries you must rename them to <tt>fr.aff</tt> and <tt>fr.dic</tt> or <tt>fr_FR.aff</tt> and <tt>fr_FR.dic</tt>. You can have more than one dictionary pair installed on macOS using MacPortsif you use several languages, but one '''must''' match the language you use for Gramps or spell checking won't be enabled at all.}}
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MacPorts is a package manager for Apple Mac.
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The macOS application bundle can also be installed via the Homebrew package manager as a cask. Note that this is *not* a Homebrew build, it is a repackaging of the same Gramps.app provided in the above dmg. It does not depend on or use any of the Homebrew-built libraries.
See https://github.com/homebrew/
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