Thanks Adrian, and Stan, for the suggestions. As you suspected, Adrian, a VM would be overkill for my needs. In fact, I shouldn't have expressed my question as "Is there ANY way":-)
I have thought of another method (which reminds me that I forgot to say in the original question that I'm running on Windows); have a .reg file associated with each GnuCash file that sets the accounting period values appropriately in the Windows Registry. Then have a script to run the .reg file before starting GnuCash. Regards, Mark On Mon, 6 Oct 2025 at 16:35, Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > Logging out-in between two OS users can be a pain for a separate set of > books for a different entity. Although not terribly simple, an > alternative is to run another OS instance in a virtual machine. (could > be any OS like Linux if you are worried about licensing) > > If you have enough resources on your machine, you can run the VM in the > background and depending on your VM software, you can even set up a > separate GnuCash app launcher in your Host OS that simply launches > GnuCash inside the VM itself so that the entire process to open that > other set of books is one-click seamless. Though that might be overkill > for your needs. Guest VMs don't necessarily need lots of resources > either, and with Linux you can find a really 'light' distro just to run > GnuCash. (XP is also really light by comparison these days, but GnuCash > isn't officially supported on it any longer) > > Regards, > Adrien > > On 9/19/25 12:28 PM, Mark Itzcovitz wrote: > > I see that, by design, Preferences are set for a user, not a set of > books. > > My problem is that I run two sets of books with different accounting > > periods. Is there any way I can set different accounting periods but > still > > use the same user? > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
