How to share data across multiple machines

[Colin Law]

On 30 January 2014 22:06, elvis <elvis at dogonfire.com> wrote:
> On 31/01/14 01:32, 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
>
>
> 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.

Opening twice on the same file is not a problem as the lock will
ensure (unless you override it) that one of them is read only.  Using
dropbox there is no such lock so it is easy to open it on both
machines, modify and save.  Then there will be a conflict (which
dropbox will inform you of).

Colin