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[David Reiser]

Have you tried without the extra directory info? 
man defaults says that the -app flag specifies the name of the app, not a directory. I haven’t tested it myself, and the manfile is a bit vague on details here. But since defaults write is writing to the pfile in Library, it doesn’t have to know the location of Gnucash. Gnucash reads the pfile on launch, so it shouldn’t matter where the app is stored.
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> On Jan 16, 2021, at 5:54 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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