From Windows to Linux

[John Mills]

Jim, Gnucashiers -

When I set up a dual-boot system I generally create a FAT32 partition 
(called "Transit" or some such) to hand files between Linux and MsWin 
environments. In fact I just passed a gnucash account file from Linux to 
WinXP this way and had no problem opening it with gnucash in Windows. I 
don't recall any _major_ conflicts in such a handoff, but I'm sure can be 
issues. (Properties of FAT32 and *NIX files are quite different and don't 
really cross-map.)

The reason I've used FAT32 format is that historically Linux has not been 
able to reliably write into an NTFS partition. I understand this may have 
changed with a recent file-system library but I have never tried to write 
from Linux to an NTFS file system. It would be handy with large files 
such as video recordings.

  - Mills

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jim Bojan wrote:

> In addition, has anyone opened a common data file in different OS's?  i.e. I
> have Windows at work and will use Linux at home.  I planned on keeping the
> data file on Dropbox, and be able to access it anywhere (this is what I did
> with Quicken).  Will this work (assuming the same version of Gnucash on all
> machines)?