Just to be clear Michael, I did NOT write any of this !!!! Cheers David H.
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 01:07, Michael or Penny Novack < [email protected]> wrote: > On 4/4/2021 9:05 PM, David H wrote: > > AM going to continue to add to the historical accounts and use the reports >> for the annual tax returns, seems like the easiest option. >> My other question was again what I thought should be a simple solution. >> Saving data, I have attempted multiple times to do this in various places >> without success. >> >> Have previously opened the files/accounts from the file-drop down which >> works fine but there are only 4 options and I now have 5 accounts/files and >> as I have been playing with different names and accounts to solve the above >> issues now can only open 2 is there a way of “seeing” selecting and opening >> all accounts/files within GnuCash. >> >> As this has been very limiting have been following instructions in user >> manual to save Accounts to a specific file have followed procedure and >> repeated many times with same result that if no mater which file I click on >> it will only open the last one that was saved. SO below last saved was 2 >> Verona, when I click to open Oxley the 2 Verona data is retrieved. >> >> Sure there is a simple solution that I am not seeing. >> >> Again thanks for your help. >> Andrew > > I am not SURE what you are saying. (Operating system might help) > > When you use "file open" you get a drop down list showing the last four > that you had open. You cant change that (get more than four i that handy > "shortcut" list). This can be slightly awkward if you have more then four > ACTIVE sets of books. If the problem is that you have less than five > (active sets of books) but some inactive ones are clogging the list, that > is fixable, by opening the active ones until the inactive ones have dropped > off the list as no longer most recently opened. > > You are NOT limited to opening files from that list. If instead of > clicking on one of those you use the more general "open" you should get to > where you can select any file. That's how you can replace the inactive ones > in the "last four" list. Is THAT what you are doing but say that it is > opening instead the last one that was open? << in other words, it is THAT > paragraph in what you wrote that makes me uncertain what problem you are > claiming to have, and why I asked about OS. > > Michael D Novack > > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
