On 4/26/2022 11:25 AM, Chris Green wrote:
I have several gnucash accounts files (sqlite databases in my case)
spread around my system. When I go to a specific directory and run
GnuCash I just want it to see only the database[s] in that directory.
Is there a way I can tell gnucash to forget about all previous files
it has opened? As it is I get presented with a 'memory' of other
accounts which can be very confusing unless I'm very careful with file
naming.
The --nofile option tells gnucash not to open the last accounts
database, it helps a little, but I really want it to forget more!
It may be confusing things slightly when you shorten "book of accounts"
to "accounts" instead of "books" << we usually refer to the financial
records of an entity as "its books" --- in days of yore when the records
were kept pen and ink on paper the "journal" and "ledgers" WERE books
(bound volumes of accounting paper) >>
Why is remembering in what directory the records for an entity are kept
easier than remembering the name of the entity? I would find it much
more difficult to keep track if the books for each of the entities were
named just "books" and what made the difference was WHERE they were.
Thus when I was using gnucash to handle :the books" for several entities
besides myself I named each of the files for the entity. So the books
for MA Chapter of TACF might have been called MATACF.gnucash, those of
the local chapter of CoG Weavers.gnucash, etc. They were in fact living
in different directories, but that was beside the point. The little MRU
(most recently used) list in gnucash made it easier to select any of the
ones "most popular" but I could file=>open whichever I wanted to work on.
Michael D Novack
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