Selecting a Business/chart of Accounts when starting

[Michael Hendry]

On 5 Jun 2013, at 01:05, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:

> On 06/04/2013 04:18 PM, David Carlson wrote:
>> On 6/4/2013 4:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
>>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Instead of being locked into starting a 'default' accounts database,
>>>> can I open gc with no set of accounts, or a window listing the
>>>> existing ones with the 'new' option?  Then I can select the one that
>>>> I want.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a command line option?
>>>> 
>>>> John
>>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> If your goal is to have more than one set of books, say My_books,
>> Moms_books, just create two data files or even 17 different data files.
>> Then, depending on your OS you can put icons on your desktop then double
>> click on whichever one you want to work with next.
>> 
>> David C
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> worked like a charm!

That's odd - from previous threads on the list, I'd understood that double-clicking on a GnuCash file icon would open the most recently opened GnuCash file, not the one that had been double-clicked.

Has this behaviour been changed recently?

Michael

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