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

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Chris,

If you start multiple programs from the directory a set of bash scripts which
change to the appropriate directory and run the set of programs for each set of
books you work on  might be useful. You could launch the scipts from either the
Ubuntu menu or from desktop launchers.

David Cousens

On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 09:13 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>