open 2 sets of accounts

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Maf. King wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
> > When you start GnuCash it seems to open the accounts file that was last
> > used. If you use File->Open it closes one set of accounts to open the
> > other.
> >
> > I have 2 separate sets of accounts and I need them open simultaneously.
> > The only way I have found to do this is to start GnuCash twice, ignore
> > the warning and once the second instance is up open the other set of
> > accounts.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Hi Tarlika,
>
> A possibility (under KDE, at least) is to set up the mime-types so that
> clicking a data file opens GC with that data file.  GC doesn't seem to do
> this out of the box on my system.  That way, it is as simple as selecting
> the relevant data file to have multiple instances running.
>
> HTH,
> Maf.

Someone here once told me to start gnucash from terminal with the file name
ie gnucash /home/user/data_1 and gnucash /home/user/data_2
now i have put those entries in my KDE menu  :-)

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