Multiple .gnucash directories?

[Chris Dennis]

Colin Law wrote:
> On 6 April 2010 18:42, Chris Dennis <cgdennis at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Hello folks
>>
>> Is it possible to configure GnuCash to use a directory other than ~/.gnucash
>> for its settings?
>>
>> I need to (temporarily) run different versions of GnuCash without them
>> changing each other's settings.
> 
> I had this problem also as I wanted to test 2.3.x while running 2.9
> for 'production'.  I do this by having a number of shell scripts
> (batch files in windows).  Each one has a copy of .gnucash
> (.gnucash_1, _2 etc) and the script renames this to .gnucash before
> running the program and then renames it back at the end.  Each script
> also explicitly opens the appropriate data file also.

Good idea.  In the absence of anything more elegant, that will have to do.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis at btinternet.com
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK