Using Gnucash from multiple computers?

[Sean Clarke]

Thanks John,

I didn't realise I'd forgotten to 'reply-all'

And looks like I've got some reading to do to figure out what you said to
do.

Cheers,

Sean

On 14 October 2014 21:07, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Dang it, after preaching about copying the list, I forgot to copy the list.
>
> On Oct 14, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Sean Clarke <seanchk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> by GNC_DOT_DIR do you mean the .gnucash directory in /home ?
>
> If not then what am I looking for?
>
> Also I don't have a .bashrc in /home  which is where I was expecting it.
>
> Can you give me a little more help please.
>
> At the moment I have all (?) the .gnucash account data files in a folder
> on Google Drive and apart from having to remember to exit the program on
> one machine before opening it on another (because of the LCK file),
> everything seems fine.
>
>
> Please remember to copy the list on all replies: Use "reply all" or, if
> your email client supports it, "reply list".
>
> GNC_DOT_DIR is an environment variable. If it's not set the default is
> $HOME/.gnucash, where HOME is another environment variable pointing the
> user's home folder, which on Linux is /home/<username>. You want to set it
> like this:
> GNC_DOT_DIR="$HOME/Google Drive/gnucash"
> or something similar.
>
> .bashrc is one of several possible names for startup files, see the bash
> manpage for a complete list. Note that none of them will exist unless the
> user explicitly creates them, and nthat bash looks for them in a particular
> order; once it finds one it stops looking for more.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> On 14 October 2014 09:29, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Sean Clarke <seanchk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is it possible to stick the Gnucash settings file on Google Drive and
>> then
>> > be able to use the same settings from multiple computers?
>> >
>> > I want to have Gnucash on all my computers so depending which one I'm
>> using
>> > I have access to my financial analysis.
>> >
>> > Or will I run into problems?
>>
>> Nope, piece of cake: Just set GNC_DOT_DIR to a folder on your Google
>> Drive. You didn't say what OS you're using,
>> so in Linux you can just set it in .bashrc. On OSX you'll want to edit
>> Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash. On Windows
>> the easiest way is to edit the shortcut in the menu (right-click on it
>> and select Properties from the context menu).
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>
>