[GNC] I would like different Preference settings for different files, same user

[Michael Hendry]

> On 4 Mar 2019, at 08:31, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 11:58:14 +0000
> Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The manual tells me quite clearly that Preferences are per-user, not
>> per-file, so I can’t complain that Gnucash isn’t doing what’s
>> intended! BUT it isn’t convenient to have to switch to another user
>> to edit the ESJE books.
>> 
>> Has anyone similarly afflicted invented a work-around?
> 
> The only known workaround is to keep the books under different user
> accounts on your computer.
> If the other user was in a virtual machine it would be a little easier,
> but not easy.
> 
> Liz

Thanks, Liz.

I got into this because I was creating several similar reports for the ESJE book, copying-and-pasting the account titles from the reports for use in the filenames - the (default) colon separator caused problems and I replaced it with a hyphen.

When I went back to my personal book I was warned that the use of hyphen as a separator would clash with hyphen-containing account names.

I have VMs for Windows and for Ubuntu on my Mac, but firing one of these up for a quick enquiry on a book would be a pain, so I’ll stick with what I’ve got - choosing preferences that will suit both books as far as possible, adjusting the accounting year where necessary and keeping my eyes open when it comes to Saved Reports.

Michael