Cloud / net (was Re: Reset import assignment)

[Ian Konen]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:48 PM,  <cgw993 at aol.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity does GC offer "cloud" services like many other software
> packages?   Does it offer to upload your financial data to the cloud in some
> way so the user can have the convenience of accessing their financial data
> from anywhere?  Does it have any type of internet connection at all?
>

GC does not offer cloud services.  You *can* use it with a cloud
storage service like Dropbox the same way you can store any data file
on the cloud.  It doesn't handle multiple simultaneous access (it uses
a lock file to prevent simultaneous openings but you can choose to
override the warning at your own risk.  It won't merge changes made in
two different instances and most likely you'd lose the work done on
all but the last machine to save the data.)

Yes, it can access the internet to download stock quotes and exchange
rates, and I think some support for connecting directly to online
banking sites, described here:

http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Setting_up_OFXDirectConnect_in_GnuCash_2



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