Sharing and backing up gnucash files on several machines

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Peter Underwood <peterunderwood1 at gmail.com> writes:

> So rather than a dropbox, if I want to access my data from NAS so that it's
> available to the entire LAN, I don't have to move ALL the files in the
> directory, just the main one (no suffix) and ignore the log and lck files?
> (And then install GnuCash on all the computers on the LAM presumably.)

You cannot really ignore the LCK file -- that is the LoCK file used to
make sure only one instance of GnuCash is running at a time.  You should
make sure you exit GnuCash before moving the file to your NAS box.

> Peter

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-derek


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