[GNC] Frustration

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/4/2021 9:05 PM, David H wrote:

>     AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the
>     reports for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option.
>     My other question was again what I thought should be a simple
>     solution. Saving data, I have attempted multiple times to do this
>     in various places without success.
>
>     Have previously opened the files/accounts from the file-drop down
>     which works fine but there are only 4 options and I now have 5
>     accounts/files and as I have been playing with different names and
>     accounts to solve the above issues now can only open 2 is there a
>     way of “seeing” selecting and opening all accounts/files within
>     GnuCash.
>
>     As this has been very limiting have been following instructions in
>     user manual to save Accounts to a specific file have followed
>     procedure and repeated many times with same result that if no
>     mater which file I click on it will only open the last one that
>     was saved. SO below last saved was 2 Verona, when I click to open
>     Oxley the 2 Verona data is retrieved.
>
>     Sure there is a simple solution that I am not seeing.
>
>     Again thanks for your help.
>     Andrew
>
I am not SURE what you are saying. (Operating system might help)

When you use "file open" you get a drop down list showing the last four 
that you had open. You cant change that (get more than four i  that 
handy "shortcut" list). This can be slightly awkward if you have more 
then four ACTIVE sets of books. If the problem is that you have less 
than five (active sets of books) but some inactive ones are clogging the 
list, that is fixable, by opening the active ones until the inactive 
ones have dropped off the list as no longer most recently opened.

You are NOT limited to opening files from that list. If instead of 
clicking on one of those you use the more general "open" you should get 
to where you can select any file. That's how you can replace the 
inactive ones in the "last four" list. Is THAT what you are doing but 
say that it is opening instead the last one that was open? << in other 
words, it is THAT paragraph in what you wrote that makes me uncertain 
what problem you are claiming to have, and why I asked about OS.

Michael D Novack