Selecting appropriate data file

[Colin Law]

On 31 January 2017 at 16:42, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I have two subdirectories in ~/data/ for gnucash. One is personal/ the
> other is business/.
>
>   Yesterday I created the business file and started entering the CoA. As
> this is the last used file it's the default when I invoke GnuCash.
>
>   I cannot switch to the personal data using File -> Open, but can when I
> use the list of 4 most recent files.

What do you mean by 'I cannot switch...'?  What is stopping you?

Colin