Starting Gnucash in Read-Only mode

[Maf. King]

On Sunday 27 February 2011 11:41:00 Colin Scott wrote:

>
> To make this reasonably safe (to ensure that I do not risk corrupting the
> data by using multiple version of gnucash on it), I would like to be able
> to tell the reporting installation that it may read, but not write back,
> the accounts data (though it may, of course, write back status info, such
> as open account registers and reports, or report options, into its own
> environment!)
>
> Colin

Hi,

AFAIK, the only way to do this is to mark the data file read-only.  

Tedious to keep swapping the permissions -  but maybe you could set up some 
shared drive or link that is read-only, and use the linked file in GC2.2.9, 
and the base file in 2.4 ?

Maf.