[John Ralls]

On Jan 12, 2014, at 9:13 AM, 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.]

Just open two instances of GnuCash and open one of the files in each. You’ll
want to select “New File” when you open the second instance and it whines 
about the lock file.

Regards,
John Ralls