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

[Michael or Penny Novack]

> I have lots of other information associated with the GnuCash data
> which I keep in the same directory.  E.g. there are copies of cheques
> deposited and GiftAid records.  So my way of working is to go (in a
> terminal window) to that directory and then run programs as needed
> from there.

That is not actually relevant to the discussion (except that you have 
some sense of "current directory"). Indeed, in my case there would be 
lots in the directory devoted to the organization for which the books 
being kept, the exported reports, their finished versions, Gov't filings 
etc. In other words, there would actually be sub directories devoted to 
some of these things << and ONE of these would have the books file and 
associated log files making it easier to maintain how many kept >>

But that has NOTHING to do with how I open gnucash. I open the 
application (nofile) and select which I am working with today. The ones 
I work with frequently will be on the MRU list, the others not << but 
this is actually SEASONAL -- thus an organization which has little 
financial activity 10 months of the year and then a lot when putting on 
an annual event might for two month of the year be on the MRU list but 
then drop off it.

I do not usually open files (we aren't talking just about gnucash) by 
"click on object". That is because with my decades in the cypher mines, 
I don't think of objects that way (as things that can be opened by only 
one application). For example, my "hex editor" can open ANYTHING. 
Therefore I usually open an application and tell it what I want it to open.

Please note, "click on object" only works for objects that have an 
"extension" associated with an application. It doesn't work when you 
have several applications which COULD (usefully) open the object so that 
part of the process is selecting which. Objects (like a gnucash data 
file) represent a special case of "only one application COULD be 
usefully used to open". I don't know about what's on your computers, but 
on mine, the number of "objects" that could be usefully opened by more 
than one application on my computer outnumbers the ones like gnucash 
files that cannot hundreds or thousands to one. OK, I do tend to have 
favorites for these file types and set the associations that way (let's 
me open by clicking) BUT I often have to check/test  (before sending 
off) that other folks will be able to use the file on their computer 
with their favorites.

Michael D Novack