[moneydance] default file when opening moneydance

[Sean Reilly]

Hi Don,

You can give the data file to run on the command line, so you could  
change the launcher for the beta version to specifically open the data  
file from the same directory.  Otherwise, Moneydance remembers the  
path of the last file opened, which is stored in your preferences.

Thanks,
Sean

On Mar 3, 2008, at 14:57 , Don Zickus wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to understand where moneydance looks to open a file upon
> loading.  My issue is when I was trying to load the 2008 beta on
> linux.  I copied my current moneydance directory to moneydance.beta
> and then copied the beta tar ball into the beta directory.  I ran the
> 2008 beta thinking the default file it would load was my copy in the
> moneydance.beta directory.  Instead it opened the copy in the original
> moneydance directory.
>
> Ok fine, I'll just manually load the copy in the beta directory.
> After closing and running the 2007 moneydance, the program loaded my
> info from the beta directory.  I was wondering if that is expected and
> if there is a way to tell moneydance to only load files from it's
> local area.  What I would like to do is run 2007 moneydance and have
> it automatically use my 'normal' data.  And on the flip side when I
> run the 2008 beta moneydance, I would like it to automatically load my
> beta info.  Is that possible?  Or do I have to manually ping pong back
> and forth when I load the different versions of moneydance?
>
> Cheers,
> Don