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Michael Hendry hendry.michael at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 05:55:39 EST 2021


> On 16 Jan 2021, at 21:50, 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.

Unfortunately, the recommended command-line:

defaults write --app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6

results in this error message

2021-01-17 10:53:30.036 defaults[27141:944194] Unexpected argument 6; leaving defaults unchanged.

Michael


> 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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