MacOS couple minor questions

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Paul S

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May 6, 2026, 2:01:02 AM (yesterday) May 6
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Hello- first off this is so amazing!! Have used MSMoney since 1995 but moved to Mac thinking I would have to abandon it. Thanks to Nathan for this project being accessible to all.  I can click around and that's the extent of my computer knowledge- less than that on the Mac. Money DLX sunset is up and running on Tahoe 26.4.1. My questions.
1. Account registers in the Payment and Deposit columns the last digit is half cut off for amounts over 1000.00. Plenty of space but the amounts are justified to the right.Any fix?
2. Terminal stays open after closing Money properly as described. Normal?
3. Have to use Transaction forms otherwise the Payee and Category boxes are too short to read the text or dropdowns
Other than these minor graphic glitches everything works great.  I tried the graphic tab in Wine configuration and the emulate virtual desktop checkbox is greyed out even if I uncheck everything. I can change dpi but didn't help.  thanks in advance, Paul

N G

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May 6, 2026, 6:44:18 AM (yesterday) May 6
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Hi Paul,

Thanks for testing out the new build, I feel like the MacOS version is very much a work in progress, probably indefinitely.

1. No fixes for this type of stuff. I used to use a comctl32.dll from Windows XP but that seems to make Money less stable, at least on Linux and with the latest wine. I'm open to experimenting on MacOS to see if there's any difference.
2. The Terminal staying open after Money closes does happen sometimes. My luck has been better if I go back to the Accounts list page before exiting Money; I haven't seen it with Linux in a long time and this is how I primarily use Money.
3. I haven't seen the Payee and Categories boxes being too small but I'll take a look. Maybe you can upload a screenshot so I can see exactly what you're seeing.

I'm glad you were able to get to the Wine Configuration program, this is new with the current way I install wine. msmoneysetup currently installs wine 10.x but it might be worth trying an older version of wine to see if this helps with any of the issues you're seeing. I'll take a look and see if I can find any improvement.

Nathan

N G

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May 6, 2026, 9:56:31 AM (yesterday) May 6
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Hi Paul,

I did some digging and found that a previous wine engine is “less bad.” Expect a new msmoneysetup soon. 
Nathan

Paul S

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May 6, 2026, 10:00:47 AM (yesterday) May 6
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thanks for the reply Nathan and definitely very usable as is. here is a screen shot if I enter a transaction in the register.  Maybe the boxes are ok in height just the text is low within them. 14" macbook pro base M5. Paul
Screenshot 2026-05-06 at 6.09.13 AM.png

N G

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9:24 AM (4 hours ago) 9:24 AM
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Hi Paul,

I think you're the first person I've run into who uses MSMoney in MacOS or Linux who doesn't use the transaction form. I've never seen this problem before since I don't use Money this way. I'll definitely keep an eye open for this going forward, so thanks for that!

Here's a new download link, there are a couple of things that have changed.

msmoneysetup_MacOS_FullInstall_07May2026.zip

Remove the old msmoneysetup folder and extract the new one; replace your msmoneyquotes if you use it.

The old Install.sh only removed with MS Money installation part before but left the wine engine intact; this has also been fixed. 


I tested with both Wine 10.0 (still the default) and a wine 9.0 engine based on Crossover WS12WineCX24.0.7_7. With the CX engine I noticed that the Money installer is a gray window instead of the normal Money imaging, but runs properly. This one makes the fonts slightly easier to read in the account register but not perfect.

I did find something I missed though in setting up the links to the dlls so that's why I defaulted back to wine 10.0; it should be more stable. Hopefully I have a better handle on this new installation method, it's so much faster than last year's method.

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If you want to experiment, you have to make changes to desktop/Install.sh and homebrew/install-homebrew.sh.

For Install.sh, near the top, uncomment the WineCX line and comment out the WineSikarugir line.

#ENGINE_NAME="WS12WineCX24.0.7_7"
ENGINE_NAME="WS12WineSikarugir10.0_6"

becomes

ENGINE_NAME="WS12WineCX24.0.7_7"
#ENGINE_NAME="WS12WineSikarugir10.0_6"


After those changes, rerun Install.app.

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Let me know if you find anything else, I need to update the guides as well but I'll wait for your feedback. If this works well then I'll create a new thread for it.

Thanks,
Nathan

Dan Adkins

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9:53 AM (4 hours ago) 9:53 AM
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Even in Windows, the transaction form is a much cleaner presentation.  Perhaps he never noticed the show transaction forms checkbox at the bottom of the page ;)

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