How to "Go to the GMVAULT_HOME/bin dir to launch Gmvault" on Mac 10.7.5?

[kwag]

Sorry for the basic question. 

I understand my Mac will untar the binary tarball automatically (right?), but when I try to run the "gmv_runner.app" in the downloaded file nothing happens. Where can I find the GMVAULT_HOME/bin dir to launch Gmvault?

[Sarah Scott]

I am having the same problem...

[Guillaume Aubert]

Dear kwag and Sarah,

Please read the documentation here: http://gmvault.org/install.html#mac_install

You have to open a Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and do:

tar zxvf gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz
$ cd gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin
$./gmvault sync myu...@gmail.com

I know, the Mac OS X Packaging is not really friendly but I am working on it now so be patient.

Please tell me if this fixed your issues.

Cheers,

Guillaume

On 15 July 2013 19:39, kwag <wag...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for the basic question. 

I understand my Mac will untar the binary tarball automatically (right?), but when I try to run the "gmv_runner.app" in the downloaded file nothing happens. Where can I find the GMVAULT_HOME/bin dir to launch Gmvault?

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[Krista Wager]

Hi Guillaume,

Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I have been trying, however I
get the following error messages (personal information is starred out
for security reasons):

Last login: Tue Jul 16 16:36:18 on ttys000
******-MacBook-Pro:~ ******$ tar zxvf gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open
'gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz'
******-MacBook-Pro:~ ******$ $ cd gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin
-bash: $: command not found
******-MacBook-Pro:~ ******$ $./gmvault sync ******@gmail.com
-bash: $./gmvault: No such file or directory
******-MacBook-Pro:~ ******$


Do these commands go in one-at-a-time (i.e just copy and paste
directly from the installation instructions)? Or, should I put them in
separately, one after the other? (I still get error messages when I
try them separately.)

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks again

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[Guillaume Aubert]

Hi Krista,

gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz should have been downloaded your home directory.

What you could do is grab gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz and copy it in your user home directory

Then open a terminal and do

$>cd ~

to go to your home directory.

then you can untar gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz but it has to be in the directory where you are to have it working.

$> tar zxvf gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz

...

If there are no errors, then you can go to the bin directory

$>cd gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin

and run it

$>./gmvault sync ******@gmail.com

Tell me if it helped otherwise we will find another way.

Cheers,

Guillaume

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[Krista Wager]

Hi Guillaume,

gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz downloads into my "Downloads" directory.

Mac OS X will unpack a .tar.gz, .tar, or .zip file automatically when
you double-click on its icon (which I have done). This places the
files in the same directory as it was downloaded in (so, the files are
now untared and in my Downloads directory).

*Can I have gmvault working from the Downloads directory?

When I then try to go to the bin directory with ">cd
gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin" in terminal I get the error message: ">cd
gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin
-bash: gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin: No such file or directory"

When I "drag-and-drop" the folder from Finder into the terminal window
I get this message: "***MacBook-Pro:Downloads
***$/Users/***/Downloads/gmvault-v1.8.1-beta/bin
-bash: /Users/***/Downloads/gmvault-v1.8.1-beta/bin: is a directory"

When I try to run it in terminal via ">./gmvault sync***@gmail.com,"
nothing happens.

The other way I have tried running the program is by double clicking
"gmv_runner.app" directly in the finder window (from the "lib"
subdirectory in "gmvault-v1.8.1-beta"). Similarly, nothing happens.

I have also tried all of these steps in a different directory than
"Downloads," but the same things happen.

What am I doing wrong here?

What is the "gmv_runner.app" anyway? Should I be able to sync for the
first time through this app?

Thanks again,
K

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[Sarah Scott]

I have tried opening the terminal using the text shown above and in the directions, and using bin/gmail vault (Unix file) and all I get is a terminal either way.  I tried this with the file in the downloads folder and again in the applications folder.  gmv_runner just opens and closes. What does the program look like? It's not a terminal is it??

On Monday, July 15, 2013 10:39:23 AM UTC-7, kwag wrote:

[clipper]

Long winded, but I hope helpful in some way?

Being a beginner at code line commands, I had trouble getting Gmvault to work on my Mac. The commands listed just returned errors in my Terminal window.  After lots of trial and error, I did get my 20,000 emails downloaded and uploaded to another gmail account. 

If it matters, I’m running Mac OSX 10.6 on an iMac.

Here’s what worked for me after reading the posts here. Thanks to all of you here for inching me forward. My thinking and steps:

1) On a Mac the “Home” directory is the User account you currently have open. The name of it is the User name for the account, and the icon for it is the little house.

Translating that piece made things clearer for me.

2) My downloads go to my Desktop, but I don’t think that location matters. The Gmvault download is a zipped file which a Mac person (automatically) double clicks to extract and decompress the contents. The folder that then appeared for me was named “gmvault-v1.8.1-beta” and contained two other folders “bin” and “lib.”  Clicking around in there is fruitless. There is no graphic interface with buttons to click. The whole Gmvault application has to be run from the Terminal utility.

In Terminal all of the commands I copied from the web site returned errors. (Here, I gave up twice, but finally found this forum.)

3) Thanks to Guillaume for the code updated to the newest beta version (as of 7/22/13) copied here:

tar zxvf gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz
$ cd gmvault-v1.8-1-beta/bin
$./gmvault sync myu...@gmail.com

Actually, none of these worked in Terminal either, but they put me on the right track.

4) Thanks to kwag who pointed out that:

Mac OS X will unpack a .tar.gz, .tar, or .zip file automatically when
you double-click on its icon (which I have done). This places the
files in the same directory as it was downloaded in (so, the files are
now untared and in my Downloads directory).

OK, just unzipping the download accomplished the same task as the first of Guillaume’s three commands, and I have the “gmvault-v1.8.1-beta” folder, not the tar ball which Mac users know as a zipped file.

5) The second code line looks like what it wants to do is find the little “bin” folder. I had been typing in the $ at the beginning, but since my Terminal window already shows a $ just before the boxy cursor, I decided to leave it out as I typed. The rest of the code in the line is unfortunately not enough to locate the little “bin” folder. Terminal is working on some deep level, and the little “bin” folder is elsewhere in my Finder.

One trick I learned was that to get a path to a file into the Terminal line of code, open whatever folders you need to to see the item, grab the item and drag and drop it into the code line in Terminal. The item itself jumps back to where you had it, but Terminal then writes the correct path right into the code line! Super handy!

So instead of Guillaume’s second code line I just typed cd then typed one space then dragged the little “bin” folder next to the boxy cursor. (I think cd means “look in this directory”)

My code for my location looked like this:
MyiMac:~ myusername$ cd /Users/myusername/Desktop/gmvault-v1.8.1-beta/bin

I hit enter and it worked! Gmvault installed - it knew where to find its resources.

6) I had my email account open and ready and all set for iMap, and I minimized it into my dock (upper left of browser window - yellow button), because a later step in the Terminal window wanted to call it up from somewhere.

7) Guillaume’s third code line had the same $ issue, so once again I left it out. I just typed the rest into the waiting Terminal line, started with the dot and copied everything except the email address which I changed to my email account address. When I hit enter the terminal window called up my account and Google asked for that permission click which I gave, and then Terminal asked for another tap on the Enter key. I had to click once on the Terminal window first so that the Enter command would advance the Terminal line.

Gmvault then ran for over an hour, but whew! It worked! The results kept rolling through the Terminal window. Sometimes it took a little break and stopped for a minute, but I just kept my computer awake and Gmvault kept copying. (If my iMac fell asleep, the copying continued when I woke it up.)

8) So, when when Gmvault was done, where was my email database? It was in my User (Home) folder in a folder called “gmvault-db” and from there I uploaded to a different account.

Sorry that this is so long and detailed, but I hope it might help other Mac folks who are unfamiliar with Terminal. Maybe if this doesn't help everyone's situation, it may at least help someone else along.

Gmvault is truly amazing! I am so grateful to be able to save my emails!

~Clipper

On Monday, July 15, 2013 10:39:23 AM UTC-7, kwag wrote:

[Krista Wager]

Clipper,

Thank you so much for your detailed response! This worked perfectly
and I was able to back up all of my emails.

The only issue I am experiencing now is I can't seem to get the
restore function to add the emails to a new gmail account. Have you
had any luck with this?

Best,
K

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[Krista Wager]

Hey Clipper,

How did you upload into a different account ("and from there I uploaded to a different account") on your mac?

Thanks,

K

[Sarah Piestrup, FNP, EAMP]

THANK YOU!!!  (logged into and moving from this account now, because it's woRkinG, this is still me, Sarah Scott).  

[Guillaume Aubert]

Hi Krista,

Yes, gmvault-v1.8.1-beta-macosx-intel.tar.gz goes into your Downloads Dir and if you double click on the tarball Mac OS X will unpack it under the Download Dirs. From there, you can open a Terminal type "cd "  (with a space) and drag and drop the directory into the terminal to obtain the following line in your Term:

$>cd ***$/Users/***/Downloads/gmvault-v1.8.1-beta/

Then you can go into the bin dir and use the command gmvault to start syncing your mailbox.

$>cd bin

$>gmvault sync myu...@gmail.com 

Cheers,

Guillaume

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[Krista Wager]

Thanks Guillaume!

However when I follow these directions and go into the bin dir and use
the command gmvault to start syncing my mailbox, using the commands
(in terminal):

"$>cd bin
$>gmvault sync myu...@gmail.com"

I get this error message:

"***-MacBook-Pro:bin ***$ gmvault sync ***@gmail.com
-bash: gmvault: command not found"

Any suggestions?

-K

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