Gnucash "state" information

[Derek Atkins]

"Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:

> Where does gnucash store information about its running state?  I am
> thinking, for example, of what accounts and reports were open last time
> gnucash was closed, and which are (if you are lucky!) opened again the
> next time gnucash is started.  Is that in the main gnucash file, or
> elsewhere?

In $HOME/.gnucash/books/ you'll find a bunch of files.  Find the one
with the same name are your datafile.  That contains the information
about what's been opened.

> In the same vein, where are preferences stored?

In GConf.

> Colin

> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available