Now I have to ask for help

[David T.]

Mike--

I believe that the Last File Opened issue is handled by others by creating desktop shortcuts for GnuCash that explicitly name the data file to open. This has been discussed in the lists, and the techniques vary by operating system.

The list of files opened is maintained by the operating system; clearing it out can be done, has been discussed on the lists, and also varies by OS.

I personally don't encounter these issues, so I am only mentioning what I see others talking about on the list.

David

On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com> wrote:

> I had been ignoring paying attention to people talking about gnucash automaticly opening the last books used.
> 
> OK, our desktop is slowly dying so I have been preparing to migrate to another machine. Good time to update all the application the software, yes.
> 
> Well I just got a nasty surprise. Gnucash wants to (always) open the last set of books that were open, automatic, no choice in the matter. That's fine for most gnucash users keeping one set of books for themselves or one business entity. But I'm acting as treasurer for a number of organizations in addition to my own books. So for me this is very unfortunate behavior as I am rather unlikely to be next time opening the books I last had open.
> 
> 1) Is there a way to turn off this behavior and let me instead select from my list of folders? (added to the menu). If I have last been working on a large set of books with many reports, etc. I don't want to have to wait for that to load just to close it and open the books that I want. The old version of gnucash I had been using didn't do "automaticly open the last that was open".
> 
> 2) Is there a way to delete entries from the "recently opened" list? Since I was installing on another machine did some testing. I don't want all those copies of old data books listed forever just because I used them to test whether the newer version of gnucash could open them.
> 
> Michael
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