[GNC] Edit number of recently opened books

[Greg W]

On OSX 10.14.6 the 'defaults write --app Gnucash' command was invalid due
to syntax issues.

I tried 'defaults write org.gnucash.Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles"
10' and it didn't have any effect.

Thanks,
Greg

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 1:05 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> Op donderdag 30 januari 2020 21:11:00 CET schreef Greg W:
>
> > I've tried searching around and haven't found anywhere that seems to
>
> > suggest how to edit then number of recently opened books that show up in
>
> > the File menu on OSX:
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> >
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> > [image: Menubar.png]
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> > Can I change that 4 to a 6 or more somehow?
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> >
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Greg
>
>
>
> There is a hidden preference that can increase this number to up to 10
> recently opened books. You can't set this via the GnuCash user interface,
> but probably via the defaults command line tool. For example to increase
> the list to 6 you could try:
>
>
>
> defaults write --app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" 6
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>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Geert
>