Several sets of accounts

[James Wilde]

On Jan 11, 2010, at 15:02 , Maf. King wrote:

> On Monday 11 January 2010 13:50:29 James Wilde wrote:
>> In the guide it states that, if one is keeping a set of personal accounts
>> and a set of business accounts one must have two files.  Let's say we call
>> them Personal and Business.
>> 
>> One can presumably change from one set of accounts to the other by
>> File/Open or the Open button, and, without having checked, I'm assuming
>> that GC will open the last used set of accounts on startup.
>> 
>> Does anyone have another way of opening one set or the other, like having
>> two icons, or a startup script which takes a filename as variable?
>> 
>> Ideas appropriate to the Mac are preferred.
>> 
> 
> Hi James
> 
> There is also a recently-used file list under the GC FIle menu.

Ah, down there at the bottom, like, say, Microsoft Word has.  I see it.  Thanks, Maf.
> 
> On my SuSE/KDE systems, just clicking the relevant data file in the Konqueror 
> FIle Manager starts GC with the appropriate data file loaded - I would assume 
> that Apple systems could be made do the same...

Yep, I could do that on the Mac, too, I guess, if GC is associated with my Personal or Business accounts file.  Might be necessary to give them a distinctive file type, say, .gc.

//J