> On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:54 PM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > >> >> It’s not clear whether “data files” is meant to refer to *your* data files, >> or *the application’s.* Adrien is right that you can easily load multiple >> versions of the application simply by naming one “Gnucash 2.6.19.app” and >> the other “Gnucash 3.4.app” That is what I have done; I’ve also put both on >> my dock and use them regularly. >> >> Both of them, however, will default to opening the same data file, again >> since the same configuration files are used. You could work around this by >> installing the different versions under different users on MacOS. > > I did this as well when 3.x came out. > > Here was my workflow for installation: > > Download both versions. > > Open GnuCash 2.6.19.dmg, rename Gnucash.app to Gnucash-2.app, drag it to > /Applications > > Open GnuCash 3.x and drag it to /Applications > > This produced two ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash folders, one for each > version, so my configurations were not the same (I made them so eventually) > and my data file pointer was different because I intentionally first opened > different files with each version. >
Interesting. I dragged to Applications and THEN renamed, which resulted in only one Gnucash config folder. Wish I’d thought of that! David _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
