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Mon Jan 18 14:32:40 EST 2021

It is maybe worth mentioning that the Gnucash preferences plist on Mac OS is stored in:
~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist

Will

On 2021 Jan 18, at 01-18 12:55:51, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

And that turns out to be necessary: Unless you tell defaults -int it writes a string and GSettings decides that's the wrong type and won't use it.

Incidentally, someone wondered how to do this on other OSes. In Linux you'd just use the DConf tool to create the key /org/gnucash/history/maxfiles. In Windows you must use Regedit. Find the key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\GSettings\org\gnucash\history and add to it a DWord value named maxfiles and set it to whatever value you like between 0 and 10.

I've updated https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_have_deleted_a_gnucash_file_from_my_computer._How_can_I_remove_that_file_from_the_File_menu.27s_short_list_.28MRU.29_as_well.3F with those instructions.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jan 18, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you open the plist file with Xcode or bbedit or ... you may see that the maxfiles key is of type string, instead of integer.  It may look like:
> 	<key>/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles</key>
> 	<string>6</string>
> 
> Instead of
> 	<key>/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles</key>
> 	<integer>6</integer>
> 
> You can manually change string to integer or do this:
> defaults delete -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles"
> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" -int 6
> 
> 
>> On Jan 18, 2021, at 2:20 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 17 Jan 2021, at 20:11, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can easily check the mru details by doing the following...
>>> 
>>> defaults read -app Gnucash
>>> 
>>> or
>>> 
>>> defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
>>> 
>>> Cheers David H
>> 
>> Yes, I discovered how to read and write the relevant plist using “defaults”, via the man page, and have also inspected it with Xcode.
>> 
>> Here is the output from the command you suggested:
>> 
>> => defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file0" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/TestMRU.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file1" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file2" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file3" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryCharity.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file4" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/MDH.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file5" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/A.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file6" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/B.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file7" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash.20200316161155.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file8" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash.20200108210937 copy.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file9" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/Test_2019-10-26.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" = 6;
>> 
>> I recently created “TestMRU.gnucash”, the following 4 files are those I regularly use, and the final 5 are not currently in use.
>> 
>> I still get only the 4 most recently opened files in the File menu, so if I want to open MDH.gnucash, I have to use File->Open.
>> 
>> After opening this file, your command yields the following:
>> 
>> => defaults read -app Gnucash | grep history
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file0" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/MDH.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file1" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/TestMRU.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file2" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file3" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file4" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryCharity.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file5" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/A.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file6" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/CrashTest/B.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file7" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/ESJE.gnucash.20200316161155.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file8" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/RotaryClub.gnucash.20200108210937 copy.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/file9" = "/Users/michaelhendry/Documents/Accounts/Test_2019-10-26.gnucash";
>>  "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles" = 6;
>> 
>> …which is as expected.
>> 
>> If there’s another Mac user with more than four files in use, perhaps s/he could report on what after the command:
>> 
>> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6
>> 
>> (preferably with a before-and-after run of the "defaults read…” command).
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> PS I noticed that the values associated with the various keys are enclosed in double-quotes, and tried 
>> 
>> defaults write -app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” “6”
>> 
>> but the double-quotes don’t appear in the plist.
>> 
>> 
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