Merging data.

[David Carlson]

If your network connection is not reliable (it seems that my Wi-Fi router
is not) this may also drop your connection.

Daavid C

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 February 2017 at 22:59, Nelson Handcock <nelson.handcock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've recently set up my gnucash file on dropbox. With the dropbox app
> > installed (windows 10), I simply open the file from the dropbox folder in
> > Explorer, and I can see all the regular incremental backups being created
> > in the dropbox folder (on the internet and in Windows) perfectly fine.
> >
> > The dropbox app seems to handle syncronising the file perfectly fine -
> > every time I log on to my PC, the dropbox app starts and checks the
> > contents of the the dropbox folder on the internet.
> >
> > I am expecting another person with access to the same dropbox folder (via
> > the app) to be accessing the same gnucash file - they should be able to
> > update it and I expect when I next turn on my PC it will be synch with
> the
> > more up to date file from the dropbox folder on the internet.
> >
> > That way, you'd only need to copy your file onto your USB drive even now
> > and then as a "off site" backup for disaster recovery - how often you do
> it
> > is up to you.
>
> Just make sure that you don't both edit it at the same time, there is
> a time window during which if you both start editing it the lock will
> not be locked as it has not had time to sync the lock file. Also be
> particularly careful if you edit it when offline to make sure you
> definitely have the latest version and make sure you go online and
> resync before the other person edits it.
>
> Colin
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