[GNC] Open two files at once

[John Morris]

It would be very nice to be able to open two sets of books at the same time. Unfortunately, this procedure does not work on Mojave. When I issue this command in Terminal, GnuCash still tries to open the last opened file, which is, of course, still open as the first of the two documents I want opened. Yes, I did remember to change “your_data_file.gnucash” to the name of the second set of books I want open.

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:15 AM Robert Kesterson <robertk at robertk.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On MacOS, to run two instances simultaneously, open the first one in the
>> usual way, then for the second, open a shell and type:
>>    open -n /Applications/Gnucash.App your_data_file.gnucash
>> 
>> That assumes Gnucash is in the Applications folder.  Change
>> “your_data_file.gnucash” to the real path to the data file you want
>> to open in the second instance.  If you don’t specify that,  it will
>> try to open the last open file, which is already open in the first
>> instance.  That will give you an error about the file being locked,
>> which you have to cancel and then load the file you wanted for the
>> second instance instead.  Giving the filename on the command line avoids
>> that problem.
>> 
>> You can also make a script to do this so you don’t have to drop to the
>> shell every time.  I set up quick launch workflows in Alfred for mine so
>> it just takes couple of keystrokes to launch whatever set of books I
>> need, and they can all be open at once.
>>