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[Chris Graves]

Looks like there is a typo in the command, it should be:

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

> On Jan 17, 2021, at 2:55 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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