Multi-user gnucash: owner/group

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Rich Shepard writes:
 >   Now that I have gnucash running on both networked hosts, I have a question
 > about the overall design.
 > 
 >   When I created the directory and the initial file, I made the owner "root"
 > and the group "users". This way, both of us could access the file. However,
 > as my wife works on entering accounts and saves the file, it's saved under
 > that same owner.group, but there are a slew of *.xac files with her
 > username.group. What's the story of those files? Are they temporary files
 > that need to be manually cleaned out after each section?
 > 
We have been extremely conservative in our approach, because we don't
want to lose data.  At the end of each session, a new .xac file is
saved.  If you are confident that the current file retains its integrity,
you can happily delete the other ones.

The next version of gnucash will use a different scheme for
maintaining differences between files.

 >   It appears, too, that the .LCK and .LNK files don't release when we're
 > done with the program. Are we doing something wrong here?
 > 

That's odd.  Are you exiting the program using the normal "exit"
command?

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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