Sharing and backing up gnucash files on several machines

[Michael Miller]

That should work.  Just move the data file to the NAS and install Gnucash on
each machine.  Just make sure you back up the data file remotely and
remember that anyone with access to the location on the LAN can read or copy
the Gnucash file since it isn't encrypted with a password.

Sent from my Droid
On May 10, 2011 1:34 PM, "Peter Underwood" <peterunderwood1 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> So rather than a dropbox, if I want to access my data from NAS so that
it's
> available to the entire LAN, I don't have to move ALL the files in the
> directory, just the main one (no suffix) and ignore the log and lck files?
> (And then install GnuCash on all the computers on the LAM presumably.)
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:49 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net
>wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 7, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Michael Miller wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> In gnucash, transactions imported from any OFX source are in the gnucash
>> data file. If you're using aqbanking to connect directly with the bank,
that
>> OFX data stream is not saved at all (unless you turn on aqbanking's log
>> function). If you are importing from a downloaded webconnect OFX file,
that
>> data stays in the file you downloaded (gnucash doesn't destroy it during
or
>> after importing the transactions).
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> The direct-connect settings are saved in aqbanking's configuration files.
>> On a unix system, those are usually in ~/.aqbanking
>>
>> >
>> > So...the data is saved and it is safe to try it?
>> >
>> > Sent from my Droid
>> > 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!
>> >>
>> >>>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>> --
>> David Reiser
>> dbreiser at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
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