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* Using the Apple conventional menu (the one at the top left of the screen, not the one attached to the Gramps main window) to try to exit gramps by picking gramps-close does not work. Clicking the red button at the top left of the Gramps main window does work.
* Gramps crashes in Hebrew. A workaround is to avoid using Hebrew.
* Gramps produces strange mixtures of languages if the first entry on the list of preferred languages is a dialect of English for which Gramps has no translation and the second is a language for which gramps does have a translation. A workaround is to list English (as opposed to a regional version of English) immediately after the dialect in the language preference table with System Preferences - International. For example, a sensible choice for a language preference list might be "British English" - "English" - "Francais". Gramps is written in a highly international version of English so this should inconvenience noone!
* Dropping a jpeg file from the Desktop onto an empty media gallery doesn't work. A workaround is to use the "+" button of the media gallery to add it instead. Once the media gallery has at least one entry, dropping a jpeg (etc) onto it should create a new media object present in the gallery.
* Dropping a jpeg (etc) file with spaces in the pathname (and other strange characters too) onto a media gallery doesn't work. A workaround is to use the "+" button of the media gallery to add it instead.
* Dragging and dropping images quickly and carelessly around a media gallery page can crash gramps. Exactly how this happens is obscure. A workaround is to restart gramps if it crashes. Dragging and dropping with care at a reasonable speed is suggested.
==Updates==
Gramps stores all its internal data in ~/gramps_user_directory. So, to upgrade a binary Gramps application to a newer version, just throw the old application in the Trash. Everything in ~/gramps_user_directory will still be there. Download the new version of the application and just use it. It will use all the old data still stored in ~/gramps_user_directory. 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. Gramps binary applications are labelled with a version string, -macnn, which can be seen by selecting the application package and choosing Get Info from the context (right-click) menu.
== How the Apple binary application works ==
