Copying transactions from one book to another

[Dean Gibson]

And indeed, I verified that it also works in Windows 10.

That having been said, and since it works, it would be really nice 
enhancement to GnuCash to allow two (or more) files to be open in one 
instance of GnuCash at the same time, just like Microsoft Excel, Word, 
and many other programs.  Just like in those programs, there is an 
occasional need to copy stuff from one "instance" to another.

Granted, this might be a significant amount of additional work, and 
since one can always just start another actual instance.  My point is, 
it's not intuitive that you can do that (like it is for the above 
examples).  I regularly go back and forth between my personal account 
file and my business file, with the attendant save/load delays.  Now 
that I know I can run multiple instances, that may change.

However, this brings up a question:  I have both banking and credit card 
accounts with the same financial organizations (but different account 
#s) for both GnuCash files.  That means that when I enter a password for 
online access to a particular financial organization in one file, it has 
been retained when I save/load the other file, so long as I do not exit 
GnuCash.  I wonder if that is true with two instances of GnuCash.  I 
would hope so (but would guess otherwise);  that's a significant benefit 
of having the password retained.  A "multi file" version of GnuCash 
might fix that ...

Caveat:  Not all that important in the grand scheme of things.


> On 2016-08-30 11:48, yary wrote:
> I've had 2 instances of GnuCash running at the same time in Windows 7. 
> Good luck!
>
On 2016-08-30 10:11, Dean Gibson wrote:
> How does that work, since opening a new file in (Windows) GnuCash 
> closes the previously-open file?
>
> On 2016-08-30 09:29, David Carlson wrote:
>> Kurt,
>>
>> ... First open your destination file with GnuCash.  Then, without 
>> closing that file open your source file.
>