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

Michael or Penny Novack stepbystepfarm at comcast.net
Wed Apr 27 10:05:18 EDT 2022



> My ideal would be for GnuCash to look for account files in the current
> directory, if there is only one then open that one, if there are more
> then offer me a list to choose from.


Are you serious? Assume this was a different application, say a "word 
processor". You are saying that when you started the word processor you 
would want to search the "current directory" (we'd need to come back to 
discuss what THAT might mean) and:

if there was only one file in that directory which the application COULD 
open open that one, else if more than one present a selection list? How 
about if there didn't happen to be any?

Yes of course, --nofile means just that, don't open any (the application 
simply starts at a place allowing you to open the file of your choice.

I believe what you want (should perhaps request) if that is the case, is 
a DIFFERENT runtime parameter that causes the behavior " open the file 
name supplied instead of the last one opened. POSSIBLY this could be as 
simple as the behavior "if a file name is supplied as parameter, open 
that instead of last one open"

Michael D Novack



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