[GNC] Edit number of recently opened books

[Adrien Monteleone]

I just tried this on Catalina, no dice. The pref was added in the plist file, but it doesn’t seem to have any affect. I also tried logging out and back in after the change.

Interestingly, there are key-value pairs for more than 4 files. (I have 8 filled and 2 still blank) But only 4 show in the File menu.

Note, that ‘maxfiles' key didn’t exist prior to me issuing the command.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jan 31, 2020 w5d31, at 2:15 PM, Greg W <allrightname at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> [image: Menubar.png]
>> 
>>> Can I change that 4 to a 6 or more somehow?
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geert
>> 
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