[GNC] MRU in Windows (was Re: Frustration)

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 7, 2021, at 9:47 AM, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2021-06-07 09:30, John Ralls wrote:
>> The MRU list size preference isn't exposed in the GnuCash UI.
>> ...> Microsoft Windows users can get to it via regedit, it will be
>> somewhere under IIRC HKCU\Software\GnuCash
> 
> This may have changed in later versions, but in Windows 2.6.19 GnuCash
> stores my preferences under
> HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash
> 
> I couldn't find any explicit setting for the size of the MRU list. Under
> HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\history are keys file0, file1, ...,
> file9, and the first two of them are populated with the paths to my two
> data files. Presumably that means the MRU list can have as many as ten
> entries.

Sorry, you're right about the key. I was going from memory.

The maxfiles key isn't created by default, you have to add it.

Regards,
John Ralls