Environmental file issue

[David Carlson]

On 11/4/2012 1:58 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On 04-11-12 17:34, rclar wrote:
>> I'm having a bit of a problem with gnucash, and I think I have
>> tracked down
>> enough that I generally appreciate what is going on, but not enough
>> to fix
>> it. It would appear that when I invoke gnucash on my linux machine, it
>> sometimes (most of the time) is operating against a different gnucash
>> file
>> than when I ssh into the same machine from a different workstation. I
>> have
>> a habit of naming my gnucash file (YYYY.mm), and at the beginning of
>> each
>> month I do a save as to the new file name. In order to track down this
>> problem I have started keeping weekly files (+%U).
>>
>> Is there an easy or straightforward command line gconf call that I
>> can use
>> to verify what file gnucash will be operating against, before I actually
>> start gnucash?
> gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnucash/history/file0
>
> GnuCash will automatically load the first file that is stored in its
> history list. This history list is stored in gconf. The command above
> shows you what the first file is.
>
> I'm not sure what your problem is, but it may be helpful for you to
> know that you can always specify a file to open on the command line.
> So if you login via ssh, you can start gnucash with the file you want
> as follows:
> gnucash <path-to-your-file>
>
> Geert
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Geert,

Does your answer also work in Windows and Mac environments?

David C
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