Sharing and backing up gnucash files on several machines

[Michael Miller]

In asking before trying it because of previous bad experiences with Quicken
which really had issues with this.  Quicken stored information on what had
been downloaded from the bank in a separate file so if you switched
computers and downloaded again, the same transactions would be  downloaded
to the register and I would have to fix each one.

I was going to just try it with Gnucash to see what would happen but I ran
into a problem.  I noticed that I had to setup the OFX download with each
machine...that information was not saved in the data file.  If that
information wasn't saved then I just assumed that records of which OFX
transactions had been downloaded were not saved within the data file either.

So...the data is saved and it is safe to try it?

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On May 6, 2011 8:39 AM, "Derek Atkins" <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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