It would be very nice to be able to open two sets of books at the same time. Unfortunately, this procedure does not work on Mojave. When I issue this command in Terminal, GnuCash still tries to open the last opened file, which is, of course, still open as the first of the two documents I want opened. Yes, I did remember to change “your_data_file.gnucash” to the name of the second set of books I want open.
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:15 AM Robert Kesterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On MacOS, to run two instances simultaneously, open the first one in the >> usual way, then for the second, open a shell and type: >> open -n /Applications/Gnucash.App your_data_file.gnucash >> >> That assumes Gnucash is in the Applications folder. Change >> “your_data_file.gnucash” to the real path to the data file you want >> to open in the second instance. If you don’t specify that, it will >> try to open the last open file, which is already open in the first >> instance. That will give you an error about the file being locked, >> which you have to cancel and then load the file you wanted for the >> second instance instead. Giving the filename on the command line avoids >> that problem. >> >> You can also make a script to do this so you don’t have to drop to the >> shell every time. I set up quick launch workflows in Alfred for mine so >> it just takes couple of keystrokes to launch whatever set of books I >> need, and they can all be open at once. >> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] 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.
