Multiple files open in GnuCash at once?

[Derek Atkins]

Axel Essbaum <axel at essbaum.com> writes:

> On Apr 13, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> There have been discussions about how there are different
>> types of preferences:
>>
>> * User preferences (which apply to a user across all data files)
>> * Data File Preferences (which apply to a user per data file)
>> * Data File Properties (which apply to the data file across all users)
>>
>> Unfortunately some preferences are in the incorrect bucket.  In
>> particular you can only have a single set of Edit -> Preferences.
>> Those
>> are shared amongst all data files.
>>
>
> It seems that the Edit->Preferences are per user on OSX 10.5.6.  I am
> able to create two data files with different default currencies by
> using different users.
>
> Derek, do you know of any gotchas with this approach?

Nope.  Edit -> Preferences is per user on every platform.

> Fast user switching in OSX makes it fairly painless to toggle between
> users, each with their own gnucash session.

-derek

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