Shared data file on Google Drive - change in behavior

[Bob Fuller]

Hi John,

I believe I am using Google Drive. It shows in Control Panel as a loaded
program on my PC. I select "Google Drive" from the Google Chrome Icon in
the Task Bar. Opening the Google Task Manager from that icon menu shows
"App - My Drive - Google Drive" operating.  When I look at Settings from My
Drive I see the following, which say's it is syncing Offline. This all
seems OK.
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I was able to download the .gnucash file from Google Drive to my PC
desktop. I can open this with GnuCash by double-clicking the file and it
works fine.  When I close it the .log files are created in the desktop
folder I put the file in.  Of course, I cannot open with double-click on
Google Drive. It wants a Google application to be used.

So, the problem is still my inability to find the shared My Drive file
using the GnuCash program Open File menu. In trying again I noticed that
even though I and my son had saved the files as XML, that does not show as
a possible Data Format when I try to find and open the latest .gnucash
file.  I it defaults to "file" data format.  The only other options in the
drop-down are "mysql" and "postgres".  But, the same is true for the file I
can open successfully from the Desktop folder.

I'm uploading the files I'm successful with to my Cox Cloud Drive.  Maybe
that is a simpler place to share.

Thanks, again,

Bob


On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:13 AM, Bob Fuller <bobfuller.pilgrim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > No, I see the same files I see from Open File in GnuCash.  All the .log
> files are there but none of the updated .gnucash files.  I can Open With
> Gnucash from the most recent .gnucash file showing and I see the same thing
> as before... nothing updated since the 5th.
> >
> > How did I get the PC Windows Explorer out of sync with Google Drive? I
> had tested to ensure I was signed in on Google and I am.  I'm guessing you
> are on the right track.
>
> Google Drive maintains a directory on your PC and has a program that
> manages synchronization. You need to run that program in order to sync with
> the Google Drive service. Simply signing in with your browser isn’t
> sufficient. When the program is running it will try to maintain sync; if it
> can’t you can view errors by clicking on the Google Drive icon in the
> system tray.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>


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Bob Fuller
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