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[David H]

My Gnucash.app is in /Applications/GnuCash and I found GnuCash/Gnucash as
in "defaults read -app GnuCash/Gnucash" was sufficient however if it's not
under Applications you're probably correct :-)

Cheers David H.

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 00:35, will at theprescotts.com <will at theprescotts.com>
wrote:

> Note:  If you have Gnucash in a non-standard location like I do, you
> probably will have to give the full path to the application. e.g.
>
> defaults read -app /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash-4.4/Gnucash.app
>
> On 2021 Jan 18, at 01-18 04:20:33, 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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