John, It never occurred to me to try opening it in the background. That works perfectly.
Thanks, Will On 2020 Jul 31, at 07-31 15:10:33, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: Will, /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --nofile & works just fine here. Repeat as many times as you have files you want to open, and you may substitute the path to a gnucash file for --nofile. Regards, John Ralls > On Jul 31, 2020, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > John, > > I have played around with trying to open multiple instances of gnucash from > the Terminal (Mac OS Catalina) without success in getting two instances > running at the same time. I am pretty unix-savvy, after 40 years as a > geophysicist, now I write software for a living. But so far it hasn't helped. > > Also, it is not that high a priority to me. The two Gnucash projects I have > are completely independent so I never need to cut and paste between them. It > would be a nice-to-have-but is not a need-to-have. So I haven't spent that > much time trying to get it to work. > > Will > > On 2020 Jul 31, at 07-31 12:16:32, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote: > > macOS does not, and one must use the command line to launch subsequent > instances of gnucash. > > Regards, > John Ralls > >> On Jul 31, 2020, at 3:50 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You can avod the warning by starting all except the first with >> gnucash --nofile >> or explicitly >> gnucash path/to/file >> >> Each OS/desktop environment should have abilities to create >> corresponding links. >> >> Regards >> Frank >> >> Am 30.07.20 um 23:24 schrieb Liz Dodd: >>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:38:50 -0500 >>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On that topic, if I someone asked me what one change I would like to >>>> Gnucash, my choice would be the ability to open two different files >>>> in different windows at the same time. >>>> >>>> Will >>> >>> I routinely run with 4 open Gnucash files. >>> >>> Open up Gnucash again. It will tell you there is a lock. Choose "open a >>> new file" or similar. Then use the File Open REcent to find the second >>> file >>> >>> I actually have a series of menu shortcuts that I use all the time >>> (XFCE4 on Debian) >>> >>> Liz >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
