> On 16 Jan 2021, at 21:50, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Searching the archives of this list I found a thread a year ago. This > suggestion was part way through the thread: < > https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-January/089080.html> > It seems to be only for Mac computers so there is no info that I could find > for Linux or Windoze. For either it might be an OS or workspace setting.
Unfortunately, the recommended command-line: defaults write --app Gnucash "/org/gnucash/history/maxfiles” 6 results in this error message 2021-01-17 10:53:30.036 defaults[27141:944194] Unexpected argument 6; leaving defaults unchanged. Michael > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:51 PM Stephen M. Butler < > stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 1/16/21 9:15 AM, Michael Hendry wrote: >>>> On 15 Jan 2021, at 03:30, David Carlson <david.carlson....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe I searched for the wrong term. I would never have guessed to >> search >>>> for plist or mru, for example. >>> I’ve found the relevant file here: >>> >>> ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnucash.Gnucash.plist >>> >>> but I can’t locate the Key that defines the maximum number of >> recently-used files for display (hereinafter called “MRU_MAX"), which >> defaults to 4 on my iMac Catalina running 4.4. >>> >>> I notice that the Keys org.gnucash.history.file0 to >> org.gnucash.history.file9 contain fully qualified filenames for the ten >> books I have opened most recently, which suggests that MRU_MAX up to 10 >> could be supported if the default of 4 were changed. >>> >>> There seems not to ba a way of adjusting MRU_MAX using GnuCash’s >> Preferences, so I’m stuck! >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Michael >> Check the recent archives as I remember a discussion that if the key >> entry doesn't exist, it defaults to 4. You have to create the entry >> name/value pair in order to change it. They gave the key name in that >> discussion. >> >> >> -- >> Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM >> stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com >> kg...@arrl.net >> 253-350-0166 >> ------------------------------------------- >> GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. _______________________________________________ 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.