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

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Unfortunately GnuCash doesn't work that way AFAIK. Depending on your OS you may
be able to create separate launchers in the Desktop menufor each specific file
and name them accordingly. I know this will work on Linux Mint and likely Ubuntu
variants but not sure on other OS.  The command issued by the launcher is
"gnucash %f". If you change the "%f" to a specific path/filename it will open
that specific file or at least it did several years ago when I used to work on
multiple files.
Then you just choose the launcher for the file you want to work on. If you are a
terminal user you could create separate  aliases for the commands with different
filenames.

David Cousens






On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 16:25 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case)
> spread around my system.  When I go to a specific directory and run
> GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory.
> 
> Is there a way I can tell gnucash to forget about all previous files
> it has opened?  As it is I get presented with a 'memory' of other
> accounts which can be very confusing unless I'm very careful with file
> naming.
> 
> The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts
> database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more!
>