How to share data across multiple machines

[Jonathan Kamens]

On 01/31/2014 04:18 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.
Why won't there be a lock when Dropbox is used? As far as I can tell, 
the lock is just a file that GnuCash creates in the filesystem in the 
same directory as the data file when it starts up, so when it creates 
that file, shouldn't Dropbox automatically sync it to the other machine(s)?

   jik