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[James Wilde]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 21:46 , Geert Janssens wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 9:51 AM, James Wilde wrote:
>> 
> 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.
> 
Thanks Geert.  The Mac runs OSX which is a variant of FreeBSD, so I'll give this a try.

//James