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

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 4/26/22 11:33, Robert Heller wrote:
> 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.
>

I happen to really like that it opens the last set of books.  Yes, I 
have three (3) separate sets of books with each in a different folder 
(directory).

And having the list of recent opened files makes it really handy to 
switch between the three sets as desired.

--Steve

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