Sharing and backing up gnucash files on several machines

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Reese Ray <mrmsudawgs at gmail.com> writes:

> Curious...I also want to use Dropbox to share my Gnucash data between three
> different machines:
>
> 1.  Windows 7 Laptop
> 2.  Windows Vista Desktop
> 3:  Ubuntu Desktop
>
> I already have my data file in Dropbox which I can open with either system
> but I'm concerned that the fact that I downloaded OFX files on my Windows 7
> laptop may not be communicated to the Vista or Ubuntu machines because the
> record of that download (which downloaded files from a certain date range)
> is stored on the Windows 7 laptop.
>
> How did you address this?  Is there a way to ensure overlapping downloads do
> not occur?   

The data file contains the import information, so this should already be
happening.  Is it not?  Or are you asking before you tried it?

> Thanks!

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-derek

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