Sharing and backing up gnucash files on several machines

[Peter Underwood]

Thanks. Done. It's simpler than it looks - thought there might be files
elsewhere that would become orphans but apparently not as it's working ;)

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Peter Underwood <peterunderwood1 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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.)
>
> You cannot really ignore the LCK file -- that is the LoCK file used to
> make sure only one instance of GnuCash is running at a time.  You should
> make sure you exit GnuCash before moving the file to your NAS box.
>
> > Peter
>
> >     Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> >     You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>
> -derek
>
>
> --
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>



-- 
Peter Underwood
============
178 Memory Lane
Franklin
GA 30217
USA
Tel: +1 706 675-1412
Email: peterunderwood1 at gmail.com