three different business accounts

[David Carlson]

On 4/28/2012 10:12 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:34 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>
>> On 4/28/2012 3:31 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>>
>>>> a)
>>>>
>>>>>> That won't work as intended with GnuCash on OS X 
>>>>> It's not really a bug, and it's certainly not in OSX. Gnucash simply doesn't handle the "file open" apple event from Finder.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gnucash will open an arbitrary file if it's passed on the command line.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Because I'm running a fairly old version of gnucash and that under XP I can't be sure of what happens with newer versions under OSX *BUT* I suspect this is simply a matter of how you are opening what. Do the newer version not allow you to start gnucash initially not opening ANY file? In other words, you can't just open the app letting you see a menu of things you might want it to do? And then if that choice is "open books" (as opposed to open a budget, etc.) let you select what books file from a menu?
>>> Gnucash does indeed have that option as well (pass --nofile) but as with opening some file other than the last one opened, only from the command line.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>> Is that because OSX cannot open files from the command line, or is it
>> because GnuCash doesn't work that way in OSX?  Maybe I will not buy an
>> Apple.
> Neither. Gnucash will start up just fine from the command line on OSX, and it behaves exactly like it does on Linux.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>


OK, I have just started a virtual computer running Ubuntu 11.10 and I
opened the folder containing a GnuCash Data File.  I opened the data
file with GnuCash by double clicking on the data file.

Then I saved the file under a different name and closed GnuCash.  Then I
created a link to the first file by hovering over the icon  holding down
the middle mouse button and dragging it to the desktop then clicking
Link Here.  Then I double clicked on the link.  GnuCash opened the link
and created a backup on the desktop.   I entered a transaction and saved
the file, it replaced the link with a file.

I went back to the original folder and found the original file and the
file withe the different name still there and unchanged.  The new
transaction was not in the file.

In Windows, if I create a "shortcut" to a file and place it on the
desktop, and double-click it to open the file, gnucash opens the file in
it's original directory under it's original name and will save it with
the same name, behaving similar to other programs such as text editors, etc.

So I just learned that in Ubuntu Gnucash does not treat Linux links as
it treats Windows shortcuts.

I repeated the experiment with LibreOffice Calc.  If I double click on
the link to open the file, edit it and close it, I can then return to
folder containing the original file, double click on it and find the
edit that i made when I opened the file from the link.  This is similar
to the way shortcuts work in Windows.  I believe that this is a bug and
it should be reported in Bugzilla. 

Now I cannot repeat this experiment in OSX, so I will ask someone who
has one of those machines to try a similar experiment.

David C
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