[GNC] Possible to display two account registers on screen?

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Thu Feb 3 17:06:12 EST 2022


On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 17:02:22 -0500
Art Chimes <artsonline at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to clean up some issues with an import-gone-bad which left
> me with two accounts for the same mutual fund. There are, I think,
> some duplicate transactions and others that appear in only one of the
> two accounts, and I want to consolidate this. It will simplify matters
> and speed up the process if I can see both accounts side by side. I
> know I can print up a transaction report, and use that as a reference,
> but is it possible to display the two accounts — GnuFund GNUFX and
> GnuFund GNUCX — on screen?
> 
> If not, is it a feature GnuCash should have or is it just me?
> 
> Thank you

You can open multiple copies of a file.
You will get a warning dialogue.
At that point, choose "read only" for the second one.

Then you are reasonably safe, read from one, edit the other.

Liz


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