> On 4 Mar 2019, at 08:31, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 11:58:14 +0000 > Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The manual tells me quite clearly that Preferences are per-user, not >> per-file, so I can’t complain that Gnucash isn’t doing what’s >> intended! BUT it isn’t convenient to have to switch to another user >> to edit the ESJE books. >> >> Has anyone similarly afflicted invented a work-around? > > The only known workaround is to keep the books under different user > accounts on your computer. > If the other user was in a virtual machine it would be a little easier, > but not easy. > > Liz
Thanks, Liz. I got into this because I was creating several similar reports for the ESJE book, copying-and-pasting the account titles from the reports for use in the filenames - the (default) colon separator caused problems and I replaced it with a hyphen. When I went back to my personal book I was warned that the use of hyphen as a separator would clash with hyphen-containing account names. I have VMs for Windows and for Ubuntu on my Mac, but firing one of these up for a quick enquiry on a book would be a pain, so I’ll stick with what I’ve got - choosing preferences that will suit both books as far as possible, adjusting the accounting year where necessary and keeping my eyes open when it comes to Saved Reports. Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
