On 11/20/2017 09:47 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > Guncash, opening in its default mode, will always open the last file you > had opened. > a) You can "tell" gnucash not to do this, but instead open "nofile" and > then you have to choose which file you want to open (there is even a > drop down list for the last several you had open). That is what those of > us who are using gnucash to keep several sets of books usually choose to > do << there is no reason for us to expect that the books we want are the > same as last open >> > b) Even when gnucash has opened the "wrong" set of books (you have two) > you can at that point tell it to open the other. See that "file" button > on the top left? That will let you open another, either from the list OR > by explicitly entering the name.
I have an additional solution, practical since I am the administrator of this computer. I have my own private accounts, and if I am logged into my machine as me, if I run GnuCash, I get those. I also am treasurer for a small non-profit outfit, and I gave that outfit its own login. If I log in as that and run GnuCash, I get those. Both are under /home, but otherwise separate. I can also login as myself, do an su - nonprofitlogin and then run Gnucash to access those other accounts. That way, I can have both open at the same time, though I usually do not need to do that. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 21:10:01 up 6 days, 4:25, 2 users, load average: 4.14, 4.36, 4.46 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.