Thank you Micheal and David for your clear answers.
I tried the addition of –nofile to the icon. The first time it did nothing and when I looked at the properties I saw the nofile was not saved. On the second trial I clicked the Apply, then Continue and when I used the icon to call up GNUCash, the data file was vacant. A search on the the hard drive found it and the data was displayed as usual. Neat. I have not tried David’s suggestion, I will leave that to another day but it looks doable and very convenient when I add another set of GNUCash books. I am using Windows 11 for most data recording and all reports.. Occasionally I will use Linux, on the same computer and also on a laptop. The Linux Mint Debian Faye on both is preferred over two other Linus installations on the main computer.. Regards, Myron Schroeder On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Myron > > The same strategy can be used to create additional icons which open > GnuCash with a specific datafile. Copy the icons as > Michael suggested (one for each datafile) and edit them put in a URI to > the specific datafile instead of the --nofile > option. Give it a name reflecting that it opens that specific datafile. > > This is also similarly easy to do in most Linux OS. > > David Cousens > > > On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 16:36 -0500, Michael or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 1/21/2024 11:05 AM, Myron A Schroeder wrote: > > > Where do I find the " --nofile runtime parameter." > > > > > > Looks like an interesting way to have more than one set of books on my > > > computer. > > > > > What operating system are you using? Perhaps as much to the point, if > > you are getting to gnucash by a "shortcut" (an icon that you click) do > > you know how to look at what that is actually doing? How to edit that? > > > > For example, if you are running under Windows and have an icon for > > gnucash, and you RIGHT CLICK on that icon you get a drop down list of > > things you can do with that shortcut. At (or near) the bottom of that > > list is "properties" (let me look at the properties of this object). If > > you click on that choice (and the shortcut was to the application > > gnucash) you'll see those properties. That it is an application (the > > type of the target), where located (in a binary library) and exactly > > what the target is (what clicking on the object sends to the command > > line to execute, since that's what is done for an application. > > > > WELL -- you can edit that line to add a runtime parameter, in this case, > > append --nofile (space in between) > > > > Michael D Novack > > > > PS --- STRONG SUGGESTION --- Do not simply do this. First make a copy of > > that object (the same dropdown list where "properties" was) and rename > > it. THAT is how you can back out a failed attempt. Now try to do the > > edit of the target (add the --nofile) Back out and see what happens > > when you click the icon now. If it works (brings up gnucash without > > opening any file you are done (delete the backup copy). Otherwise you > > can use "copy" again to retry. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > 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 gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
