[GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

[John Layman]

I have a similar situation to yours, only running on windows.  My GnuCash books are called simply 'Business' and 'Personal' and are stored in the same location.  I created separate bookmarks to launch GnuCash for each.  That makes it a simple matter to have both books open at the same time.  That's especially handy in situations such as a funds transfer for capital contribution or draw where the transaction requires corresponding entries in both books. 

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From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee.org at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of James Thorpe
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 3:32 AM
To: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks

Thanks Gyle,


But I'm not trying to save the file I'm trying to open it. So I have one gnucash file I'm working with and I want to open a different one. So it's the file "open" rather than "save" dialog that I'm looking at.


kind regards

James


On 2022/04/20 09:29, Gyle McCollam wrote:
> James,
> You can use File/SaveAs and choose any name you want for the name. The 
> program opens the last saved name automatically, but if you look at 
> the file list it will be easy to figure out which file you need to 
> open.  This way it will not be Gnucash, but whatever you named it.  As 
> for question 2, I will have to leave that for Linux users.
>
> Thank You,
> *Gyle McCollam*
>
> Gyle McCollam
>
> 609.680.2326Mobile
>
> gmccollam at live.com <mailto:gmccollam at gyleshomes.com>email
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> *From:* gnucash-user
> <gnucash-user-bounces+gylemc=gmail.com at gnucash.org> on behalf of James 
> Thorpe <James at fusionsystems.co.za>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 20, 2022 3:06 AM
> *To:* GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> *Subject:* [GNC] File browser file type filter and bookmarks I have 
> two questions regarding usage of the file browser dialog to open a 
> gnucash accounts file.
>
> Because I manage my business and personal accounts in separate files I 
> am often using this functionality to select a different gnucash 
> accounts file and there are two things that would greatly speed up the 
> process for me
>
> 1. The ability to filter on file extension
>
> I find that both on Windows 11 and Linux Mint the browser shows all 
> the gnucash log files as well (which have similar start names). The 
> actual account file just ends in ".gnucash". It would be great if 
> there were a place where a file extension filter could be set to just 
> show the files with this extension. And, even better, if it could default to .gnucash?
>
> Is this a development request or is there some setting I could change 
> that would allow this?
>
> 2. The ability to see file browser bookmarks on Linux Mint
>
> This may be a rather more OS-specific topic but I use gnucash on Linux 
> Mint and I've set up bookmarks in the file explorer application that 
> allow me to quickly navigate to folders on my drive. These are mounted 
> network shares from my NAS drive. In Windows the mounted network 
> drives show up in the gnucash file browser but on Linux Mint these 
> bookmarks don't show up so I have to navigate manually to the mount 
> points via the file system. If anyone has any tips as to how to make 
> these mounts / bookmarks show up in the "root" of the file browser 
> window that would also be of great help.
>
> many thanks
>
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