[GNC] Can't find file

[will at theprescotts.com]

John,

It never occurred to me to try opening it in the background. That works perfectly.

Thanks,
Will

On 2020 Jul 31, at 07-31 15:10:33, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

Will,

 /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --nofile &

works just fine here. Repeat as many times as you have files you want to open, and you may substitute the
path to a gnucash file for --nofile.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jul 31, 2020, at 11:14 AM, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> I have played around with trying to open multiple instances of gnucash from the Terminal (Mac OS Catalina) without success in getting two instances running at the same time. I am pretty unix-savvy, after 40 years as a geophysicist, now I write software for a living. But so far it hasn't helped. 
> 
> Also, it is not that high a priority to me. The two Gnucash projects I have are completely independent so I never need to cut and paste between them. It would be a nice-to-have-but is not a need-to-have. So I haven't spent that much time trying to get it to work.
> 
> Will
> 
> On 2020 Jul 31, at 07-31 12:16:32, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> macOS does not, and one must use the command line to launch subsequent instances of gnucash.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2020, at 3:50 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You can avod the warning by starting all except the first with
>> gnucash --nofile
>> or explicitly
>> gnucash path/to/file
>> 
>> Each OS/desktop environment should have abilities to create
>> corresponding links.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Frank
>> 
>> Am 30.07.20 um 23:24 schrieb Liz Dodd:
>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:38:50 -0500
>>> "will at theprescotts.com" <will at theprescotts.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On that topic, if I someone asked me what one change I would like to
>>>> Gnucash, my choice would be the ability to open two different files
>>>> in different windows at the same time.
>>>> 
>>>> Will
>>> 
>>> I routinely run with 4 open Gnucash files.
>>> 
>>> Open up Gnucash again. It will tell you there is a lock. Choose "open a
>>> new file" or similar. Then use the File Open REcent to find the second
>>> file
>>> 
>>> I actually have a series of menu shortcuts that I use all the time
>>> (XFCE4 on Debian)
>>> 
>>> Liz
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