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[David H]

Hi David,

Yes tried it without and get "Couldn't find an application named "Gnucash";
defaults unchanged" so it definitely seems to need the folder name in
addition to the app name.  Might uninstall on my Macbook Pro later and
re-install to apps folder only and see if it makes any difference.

Cheers David H.


On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 09:30, David Reiser <dbreiser at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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.
> --
> Dave Reiser
> dbreiser at icloud.com
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM
> >>> Stephen.M.Butler51 at gmail.com
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