How to share data across multiple machines

elvis elvis at dogonfire.com
Thu Jan 30 17:06:40 EST 2014


On 31/01/14 01:32, Colin Law wrote:
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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

As an aside, I had a vpn to work a couple of years ago and often had 
gnucash open at 2 places at once, on the same file. As long as I didn't 
try and edit on both instances at once everything went fine.

>
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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
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