[GNC] Frustration (recently used files)

[D.]

Stan, 

I'm going to wager that Andrew is on a Mac, because he said that when he clicked one account, another opened. This strongly implies the oddity that Mac users cannot double click on a GnuCash file in Finder and have that file open. It will always trigger Gnucash for the last file opened. 

This is a known issue for Mac users of Gnucash, and John Ralls (the Mac expert on the development team) has in the past explained exactly why this problem exists on the Mac. The workaround on this is to use File->Open in GnuCash to open your files. You can create Automator scripts as well, but that seems a little like overkill. 

David T. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm>
Sent: Mon Apr 05 11:25:35 EDT 2021
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Frustration (recently used files)


On 2021-04-03 18:40, Andrew Ralph via gnucash-user wrote:

> 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. 

You didn't say which OS you're using, but at least in Windows you have
options:

* Create a shortcut to GnuCash with the desired file right on the
command line

* Without opening GC, double-click the file you want to open and let
Windows open GC for you.

* Some versions of Windows maintain "jump lists" of most recently opened
files for a given application, and you can configure the number of
entries in those lists via Windows.

If you have something other than Windows, one or more of the above will
probably work for you too.

-- 
Stan Brown
Tehachapi, CA, USA
https://BrownMath.com
https://OakRoadSystems.com
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