Help!

[Sandie Mady]

Hi - thank you so much. This is exactly what happened! I'm surprised there is not more mention of this somewhere on the net - I can't be the only mac user that has done this! It didn't occur to me to open the file through the programme rather than double clicking the file. Anyway - files still there so much happier.

And thank you for getting back so promptly with suggestions

Regards

Sandie

On 1 Mar 2013, at 12:39, R. Victor Klassen wrote:

> Correct.   Mac OS correctly opens GnuCash when a data file is double-clicked.   The bug is that it then proceeds to open the most recently used data file, rather than opening the data file clicked. 
> 
> On 2013-02-28, at 11:39 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:16 PM, David <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> The ability to double-click a file and have a specific application load that file is a function of the operating system. If you are using Windows, you can associate .gnucash files with GnuCash, and then double-clicking these files will load them in GnuCash.
>>> 
>>> It's not a bug.
>> 
>> No, the "bug" is that that doesn't work on a Mac. Double-clicking a Gnucash file in Finder will open Gnucash, but it will open the last-opened file, not the one that you clicked on.
>> 
>> That's perhaps why Sandie thinks that newer files are overwriting the older ones.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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