sequential use of Gnucash on multiple computers

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sun May 19 15:49:42 EDT 2013


On Sunday 19 May 2013 08:47:40 Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> First of all many thanks for GnuCash. We use it for several years now in
> my small business and it has been fantastic.
> 
> A problem has cropped up for which I wonder if there is an easy
> solution:
> 
> All work is done by one user. Up to this point all work was only ever
> done on one computer. It would be better if we could use several
> computers - in sequence, not concurrently. There is no likelihood at all
> that there is even accidental concurrency - as it would be the same user
> on each computer.
> 
> I am thinking of setting up something which automatically uploads and
> downloads onto a shared server, or maybe a dropbox account or something
> similar.
> 
> Which files should shared? Just the account files or also some gnucash
> setup files (i.e. in .gnucash/?)

Hi Peter,

Your account files should obviously be copied.

The .gnucash directory stores your custom reports (if you have any) and a metadata file 
that keeps track of which tabs/windows were open. So if you care about these being in sync 
on both PCs, you should copy the .gnucash directory as well.

The only tricky part is the preferences that are stored in gconf. I don't think these can easily 
be synchronized by copying some files over. But on the other hand, most of these settings 
change rarely. So if you manually set all preferences the same on each PC, you should not 
worry about that.

Geert


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