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

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Wed Apr 27 04:13:52 EDT 2022


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 07:49:02PM -0600, brad wrote:
> 
> On 4/26/22 09:25, 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!
> > 
> I'm not clear on what the problem is (unless you're on a Mac).
> On my system (linux), In the file manager, navigate to the folder, find the
> file you want to open, and double click it.  It only opens that database. 
> What's confusing?
> 
I don't use GUI file manager (well, very rarely), I tend to 'cd' in a
terminal window to the directory where the files I want to use are and
then run the various programs I need to do things to those files.  The
GnuCash file is just one of those files.

-- 
Chris Green


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