Unable to open 2nd set of accounts on one MacBook Pro

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Michael, your "shortcuts" are essentially the command line entry I provided. The OP could put that in a text file and make it executable on a Mac, for sure. It's a little more involved to set up.

They are both still methods to work around a default behavior that many users find surprising, especially on a Mac.

On November 24, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com> wrote:

On 11/24/2017 12:25 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> This has long been an issue with GnuCash on the Mac, such that most of us have simply gotten used to it. I will add something to the wiki FAQ shortly. It has been entered as a bug (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761024 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761024>), so it has been noted for potential correction at some point. In the meantime, most of us just accept it for what it  is. If you are regularly using multiple data files, you can use a terminal command to force GnuCash to open the file of your choosing: /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash —-/path/to/my/gnucash/datafile/firstaccounts.gnucash
>
> David

No, you don't have to accept it for what it is.

    If you are using gnucash to keep books for several entities (real or 
virtual) under the same session log in you might prefer to be calling 
gnucash with the "nofile" parameter to override the default "open the 
last one that was open". In other words, this is not an problem with 
gnucash itself but the default. That will save a step since gnucash will 
come up with no file open and you then use <File" to select the one you 
want.

It has been a while since the list has had a description of the steps to 
change a "shortcut' so that the target is called with the "nofile" 
parameter. Time to do that again? It has been many years since I last 
did that, so maybe somebody else describe the process?

Michael D Novack
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