Clear recent accounts cache

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 12 June 2014 11:52:54 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Marty Engelking <engelkings at gmail.com> writes:
> > In gnucash under the File menu how do I clear recent accounts cache
> > that is saved there everytime I open an account?
> 
> You need to exit gnucash, then you'll need to edit the underlying
> settings (either in gconf, dconf, or otherwise depending on your
> gnucash version and OS/Distro).
> 
> But I'd ask why you need to edit it?  It's just there to make it
> easier to open recent files.
> 
> At one point there was a plan to get gnucash to auto-remove files from
> the list that didn't exist if you tried to open them.  But I don't
> know if that was ever implemented.
> 
The request is still open in Bugzilla [1]. Auto-removal is not a good option. It could be the file 
is on an external drive that's currently powered off, or on a database server that's temporarily 
unreachable,...

More discussion can be found on the bug report itself.

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388500