sequential use of Gnucash on multiple computers

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Mon May 20 15:14:37 EDT 2013


On 19 May 2013 08:47, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> 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.

Just setup a Dropbox or Ubuntu One account and save the file (the
.gnucash file) in the
Dropbox/Ubuntu One folder.  The file will then be automatically synced
on each machine.

Colin


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