How to share data across multiple machines

[Craig Boon]

Oh.  Excellent!  I will give it a shot.

Thanks!
Craig Boon
NutHouse! Granola Co.
Chef & Co-Founder
Berkeley, CA
415.637.4244
www.nuthousegranola.com



On Jan 30, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Colin Law wrote:

> Remember please to reply to all (or reply to list) when responding. On
> this list just using Reply will only send it to the last sender.
> 
> 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
> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> 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