Two different sets of accounts

[Maf. King]

On Monday, 20 November 2017 01:33:11 GMT adamandeve club wrote:
> Hello, experts,
> I am Treasurer of two clubs. I have used Gnucash for both, but up to now I
> have had two different Macintosh computers, one for each club.
 Now I have
> traded my old computers for one fancy new MacBook Pro. My two sets of
> accounts are currently held on a USB stick for each. But even with the
> newest version of Gnucash (2.6.18-Intel) only the first set of accounts
> opens, the one that was initially opened on the new computer. No matter
> which account of the other set I double-click on, with Gnucash closed, the
> other set of accounts is opened. How can I keep both sets of accounts
> separately – and they cannot be put together, being totally different clubs
> with different financial dealings – using Gnucash? Thank you,
> John Nightingale,
> Secretary/Treasurer,
> Adam and Eve Social Club Inc
>

Hi John,

Sounds like you've found a limitation of GC on the MAC.  For some complicated, 
technical reason, no matter which GC data file you click on to open on a Mac, 
GC always starts with the last file that was running.

You need to File ->  Open to get the correct file.

HTH,
Maf.