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[John Ralls]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:51 AM, James Wilde wrote:
>>> And at the same time, is there any way of having two sets of accounts
>>> open at the same time?  I would like to have a window showing my personal
>>> accounts and one for the joint accounts with my wife.  Can this be done?
>> 
>> No, Gnucash doesn't support opening multiple account files at once.
>> 
> I don't know how this works on Mac, but on linux, you can open multiple 
> account files at once. It's not possible via the menu, but you can do it from 
> the command line:
> $ gnucash <file1> &
> $ gnucash <file2> &
> 
> This will open <file1> and <file2> independently.
> 
> I have setup separate custom menu entries that each open one of my account 
> files (I have 3 that I use frequently). The entries essentially execute the 
> above command, each for one specific account file. With these menu entries, I 
> can open the account files completely independently of each other and can have 
> more than one open at the same time.
> 
> Again, I don't know if this is possible on mac as well.

It does work, but it requires the user to run Gnucash from the command line. If you try to launch an already-running app from Finder, it just switches you to the running instance.

(One can run from the command line with the following command, which assumes Gnucash.app has been moved to the  main Applications folder:

/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash /path/to/account/file

)

Regards,
John Ralls