It has probably been a couple of months since I last opened MoneyDance 2010. But when I did try to open it this morning, the icon bounced a couple of times and then stopped. The problem is it was not running after I did this. I tried this a few times and still could not get it to start. So I downloaded the latest and greatest from the website, uninstalled the previous application, and installed the new one. The same thing occurred, no application showed up.

I then searched the FAQ and some forum questions and located the error log. No error was found. I removed the ~/.moneydance folder and tried again. The result was no folder was created in my home folder.

So then I opened up the package contents in Terminal and went to the Java folder and ran the following command.

java -cp . -jar moneydance.jar

I finally saw the typical first time user screen. After going through the screens and creating a new account, then the app failed to display the main screen. But this time there was a error log with the following exception.

Starting Moneydance 2010r2 (735)
Settings Folder: /Users/rwfuller/.moneydance
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 i386
Java: 1.5.0_22 (Apple Inc.)
Unable to read source information: java.lang.NullPointerException
merging old downloaded txns
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jfree/data/time/RegularTimePeriod

at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.GraphReportGenerator.getGenerator(GraphReportGenerator.java:154)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.nodes.SideBarNodeFactory.loadStandardGraphs(SideBarNodeFactory.java:705)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.nodes.SideBarNodeFactory.getFullGraphNodeList(SideBarNodeFactory.java:385)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.FullSideBarItemList.buildSideBarList(FullSideBarItemList.java:76)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.FullSideBarItemList.<init>(FullSideBarItemList.java:35)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.nodes.SideBarNodeFactory.loadFromSettings(SideBarNodeFactory.java:89)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.nodes.SideBarNodeFactory.getBarModelFromSettings(SideBarNodeFactory.java:227)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.SideBarModel.reload(SideBarModel.java:94)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.sidebar.SideBarComponent.reload(SideBarComponent.java:84)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.AccountPanel.<init>(AccountPanel.java:165)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MainFrame.selectAccount(MainFrame.java:95)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MainFrame.<init>(MainFrame.java:45)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MoneydanceGUI.dataFileOpened(MoneydanceGUI.java:1339)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main.setCurrentAccount(Main.java:1333)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.MoneydanceGUI.newFile(MoneydanceGUI.java:461)
at com.moneydance.apps.md.view.gui.StartupWindow.actionPerformed(StartupWindow.java:135)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1882)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2202)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5602)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3129)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5367)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4068)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2068)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3903)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4256)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3936)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3866)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2054)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1801)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3903)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

I am not sure if this is the reason running Moneydance.app does not work or if this is a classpath issue. Any ideas? I am running Mac OS Leopard.

Thanks,
Wayne