three different business accounts

[Mike or Penny Novack]

a)

>>That won't work as intended with GnuCash on OS X 
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>It's not really a bug, and it's certainly not in OSX. Gnucash simply doesn't handle the "file open" apple event from Finder.
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>Gnucash will open an arbitrary file if it's passed on the command line.
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Because I'm running a fairly old version of gnucash and that under XP I 
can't be sure of what happens with newer versions under OSX *BUT* I 
suspect this is simply a matter of how you are opening what. Do the 
newer version not allow you to start gnucash initially not opening ANY 
file? In other words, you can't just open the app letting you see a menu 
of things you might want it to do? And then if that choice is "open 
books" (as opposed to open a budget, etc.) let you select what books 
file from a menu?

"Shortcuts" are just that, quick ways to get to the most frequently 
desired actions. And just clicking on a file object and letting the 
system choose the app you have associated to its type identifier (file 
extension) is a shortcut. Same is having a default of "last opened". 
Computers cannot read our minds when we want some other action.


b) I have two different GnuCash accounts; one for my self, and one for 
my church (I am treasurer). To do that most easily, I have two different 
users on my machine (actually more, but that is for other things); one 
is my usual login and the other is for my church. Under each login, I 
created a GnuCash file, and the two are completely separate.

Not just a separate file but as a separate user (computer doesn't know 
you're the same human) doing it this way you can have separate 
preferences, settings, reports, etc. Can get even fancier. If your 
operating system support a data area shared between users the books 
could go there if you want to have multiple people access the books but 
I think each user could have their own preferences, etc.

Michael