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[Stephen M. Butler]

On 1/16/21 9:15 AM, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2021, at 03:30, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I searched for the wrong term.  I would never have guessed to search
>> for plist or mru, for example.
> I’ve found the relevant file here:
>
> ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist
>
> but I can’t locate the Key that defines the maximum number of recently-used files for display (hereinafter called “MRU_MAX"), which defaults to 4 on my iMac Catalina running 4.4.
>
> I notice that the Keys org.gnucash.history.file0 to org.gnucash.history.file9 contain fully qualified filenames for the ten books I have opened most recently, which suggests that MRU_MAX up to 10 could be supported if the default of 4 were changed.
>
> There seems not to ba a way of adjusting MRU_MAX using GnuCash’s Preferences, so I’m stuck!
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
Check the recent archives as I remember a discussion that if the key 
entry doesn't exist, it defaults to 4.  You have to create the entry 
name/value pair in order to change it.  They gave the key name in that 
discussion.


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