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

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 11/25/2017 11:41 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> John,
>
> I know you and the other developers are doing huge service to the rest of us with your work. I truly wish I had the skills that allowed me to help with this; years of attempts have shown me that this is beyond me, however.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> David
In case we want a formal definition of the behavior desired << let's see 
if we have agreement about that >>
a) Make gnucash "transitive" instead of "intransitive" ---- in other 
words, let it take an "object", file to be opened (books to be opened). 
Right now it does not do this, only appears to for those users who have 
only one set of books. In other words, they may click on an object (that 
is a file ending in .gnucash) and see the action "gnucash opens with 
this file" but that is not really what is happening. Instead, gnucash is 
ignoring the object and simply starting. If starting "file" (default) 
then the last file that was open or if "nofile" then without any file 
open << the "file" button will bring up the selection list and allow one 
of those to be opened or any other name that is typed in >>

     Then people with several sets of books would just have objects (for 
each on their desktop) assuming that they do that << I don't, just 
applications on the desktop >> or they go to the directory (file folder) 
where these files live and click on which they want.

b) When opened without an object could be current behavior. It would be 
nice though to allow an easier way to change the default behavior.

Michael D Novack