[GNC] Recent list in file menu

[David H]

Hi David,

Been playing around with that exact same setting for a while now but it
doesn't seem to work on my Big Sur / Gnucash 4.4 system.

My setup is slightly different in that I installed Gnucash in
/Applications/GnuCash as opposed to /Applications itself, so I've been
tinkering with

defaults write -app GnuCash/Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" 5 but
no luck so far....

Cheers David H.

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 07:52, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago.  This
> suggestion was part way through the thread: <
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/089080.html>
> It seems to be only for Mac computers so there is no info that I could find
> for Linux or Windoze.  For either it might be an OS or workspace setting.
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:51 PM Stephen M. Butler <
> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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