How to share data across multiple machines

[Colin Law]

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On 30 January 2014 15:06, NutHouse Granola <craig at nuthousegranola.com> wrote:
> How to use it with GC. I guess I don't know how to direct GC to look for the files in Dropbox instead of where they use to be on my desktop folder. Directory routing issue?

In GnuCash do File > Save As and save it in the Dropbox folder (or
preferably a subfolder of Dropbox).    It might be a good idea to also
re-name the original gnucash accounts file to something else in order
to prevent you accidentally reverting to using that one at some point.

On the other machine (after it has synced via dropbox) do File > Open
and browse to the file in the Dropbox folder.  Make sure you don't
open the accounts on both machines at the same time.

Colin

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>> On Jan 30, 2014, at 1:11 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29 January 2014 23:14, Craig Boon <craig at nuthousegranola.com> wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I have been using GnuCash on my home office desktop computer.
>>>
>>> I now have a laptop from which I want to access my account data remotely so i can generate invoices, retrieve reports, etc away from home.
>>>
>>> I have tried to do this via Dropbox, but haven't been able to figure it out.
>>
>> Is it the operation of dropbox that you are not able to figure out or
>> how to use it with GC?
>>
>> Colin