[GNC] Frustration

[David H]

Just to be clear Michael, I did NOT write any of this !!!!

Cheers David H.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 01:07, Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 4/4/2021 9:05 PM, David H wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Again thanks for your help.
>> Andrew
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> I am not SURE what you are saying. (Operating system might help)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Michael D Novack
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