[GNC] How to manage multiple accounts (as in separate gnucash?? databases)?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:21:46 +0100 Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 02:00:22PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > 
> > Under Linux, gnucash's "recent file memory" is in ~/.gnucash/books/. Maybe if
> > that directory is removed or made to be an empty "read-only" directory, you
> > might be able to "enforce" gnucash to have a memory loss...
> > 
> > rm ~/.gnucash/books/*
> > chmod -w ~/.gnucash/books
> > 
> Yes, it seems a bit drastic though! :-)
> 
> It's actually /home/chris/.local/share/gnucash/books (or, strictly,
> some system variable specifies the directory I believe).

Probably depends on the version.  I'm still using 2.6.19-1 on my Ubuntu 18.04 
system.

> 
> Even opening GnuCash from a menu or icon (rather than the command
> line) I'd really prefer that it didn't default to the last set of
> accounts opened.

Yeah, that is unfortunate.  And really unfriendly.  

> 

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