Unable to open 2nd set of accounts on one MacBook Pro
Mike or Penny Novack
stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com
Fri Nov 24 15:51:18 EST 2017
On 11/24/2017 10:24 AM, D wrote:
> 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.
>
It is not just on a Mac. Nor do I agree that the developers were wrong
to make the default "last file" because perhaps 90% or more of gnucash
users only keep one set of books. Those who have only one set of books
ALWAYS want "the last file open" and would probably complain "why do I
have to go through an extra step to select which file I want when I only
have one".
The PROGRAM cannot know how many books it is being used to keep. Nor is
it necessarily true that the users with just one set of books ALWAYS had
just one set << might originally have had a test set, now only very
rarely if ever used >>
It is only those of us who are keeping multiple active sets of books
within the same user log in who have the problem and might want to set
the parameter to "nofile". I say "might want to" because even in the
case of having multiple sets of books within the same login it is
possible that one of those sets of books is used MUCH more frequently
than all the others combined*. In which case you like the "last open"
default since only rarely having to from there open a different set of
books.
Michael D Novack
* Example? My virtual set of books for the solar system is rarely
opened. There are scarcely three dozen transactions for the entire year
and the purpose of this virtual set of books is just to track the solar
system AS IF it were a real entity in which we had invested. I maybe
enter transactions quarterly (from having written them down on the sheet
of the last reports run).
In other cases, activity in a set of books might be very
"seasonal". During the active phase, would be opening frequently to
enter transactions but the rest of the year scarcely at all. Accounting
for an annual event would be like that, with 90-95% of the transactions
concentrated within the weeks right before and right after the event.
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