GnuCash Not Happy With External File Renaming

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon May 2 13:22:30 EDT 2016


On Monday 02 May 2016 06:11:53 Maf. King wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 May 2016 22:07:58 BST Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> > Remember, gnucash will present you with a list of the last four, so
> > unless you are keeping more than four it's just a matter of
> > selecting
> > from that menu.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> on linux, the number of files in the "recently opened" list can be
> adjusted with a single command - not sure if there's an upper limit,
> but it might be 10, as there are 10 keys for to hold filenames!
> 
10 is indeed the upper limit due to the way it's implemented. You can set a higher number, but 
only 10 entries will be kept.

> gsettings set org.gnucash.history maxfiles 8
> 
> presume that Mac might be similar, no idea how that would go on
> Windows.

gsettings is used on all platforms to query and change perferences. However gsettings uses a 
different backend store on each platform.

The gsettings command is available on linux. I just discovered we even ship it with our 
Windows build, so one could run the same command on Windows (with an appropriately 
adapted path):

c:\Program Files\gnucash\bin\gsettings.exe set org.gnucash.history maxfiles 8

or

c:\Program Files(x86)\gnucash\bin\gsettings.exe set org.gnucash.history maxfiles 8

depending on your Windows version. Note that this should all be on one line. My e-mail client 
insists on splitting it up.

I have no idea whether the OSX/Quarz installer also ships with this tool. If not, the same setting 
can also be modified via the OS X native "defaults" system (which is the backend gsettings 
uses on that platform). Here's one reference to it in our FAQ (although you'll have to re-
interpret the information as it's for a different question).

Regards,

Geert


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