On 2022-04-26 13:49, davidcousen...@gmail.com wrote: > Unfortunately GnuCash doesn't work that way AFAIK. Depending on your OS you > may > be able to create separate launchers in the Desktop menufor each specific file > and name them accordingly. I know this will work on Linux Mint and likely > Ubuntu > variants but not sure on other OS.
That's a yes for Windows 7, 8.1, and 1 with GC 2.6.x. I've seen other people post here that it also works in Windows with later GC versions. > The command issued by the launcher is > "gnucash %f". If you change the "%f" to a specific path/filename it will open > that specific file or at least it did several years ago when I used to work on > multiple files. > Then you just choose the launcher for the file you want to work on. If you > are a > terminal user you could create separate aliases for the commands with > different > filenames. Or ... set up a menu in a script or batch file (whatever your OS calls it). Then instead of having one shortcut for each set of books, you'll have one that you can launch to be presented with all choices. -- Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ 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.