How to keep windows in two GnuCash files open at the same time

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sun Jan 12 12:56:15 EST 2014


On Sunday 12 January 2014 18:39:19 Henning Jacobs wrote:
> Hi Porus,
> 
> I had the same problem when I wanted to compare my "old" GnuCash
> accounts file with the new one.
> In Linux I just started two completely independent GnuCash instances
> (executing "gnucash" on command line twice) to be able to open two
> files at the same time.
> 
> - Henning

You should be able to to exactly the same thing in Windows. But not from within GnuCash 
directly. Instead you should open the account files from the windows explorer by double-
clicking them. That way you can open two separate files at the same time.

Geert
> 
> Am 12.01.2014 18:14, schrieb porus pavri:
> > Sorry, forgot to enter a subject line for my query....
> > 
> > On 12 January 2014 21:13, porus pavri <pdpavri at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I have two GnuCash files or account books if you will - one for my
> >> home accounts and another for my small business.  I have an
> >> account in each of these two books, which is a "control" account
> >> that contains transactions relating to the other account book. 
> >> For instance, if I paid an expense from my home bank a/c relating
> >> to my business, I record the cash
> payment in
> 
> >> my Home Account book, with the corresponding debit going to the
> >> Business book "control" a/c sitting in my Home Account book.  Then
> >> in my Business Account book, I record the expense, and the
> >> corresponding credit goes to the Home book "control" a/c.
> >> 
> >> My question is: I want to compare the transactions posted in these
> >> two control accounts, so I need to view these two "control"
> >> accounts
> (which are
> 
> >> lying in two separate files or account books) in the form of two
> >> windows which I can view using Alt-tab, just like we toggle
> >> between two files in Windows.  Can I do that here, if so how ?
> >> 
> >> [There is a workaround no doubt - print one of the GLs as a report
> >> in
> >> excel, then open the other account in GnuCash, and toggle between
> 
> Excel and
> 
> >> GnuCash, but I wanted to know if there is a way to keep windows
> >> open
> 
> in two
> 
> >> different GnuCash files at the same time.]
> >> 
> >> Porus
> > 
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