Fwd: Gnucash on two computers

[Mark Phillips]

Marty,

I should work, regardless of the cloud drive you use. A file is a file is a
file.....

Disclaimer - I use Dropbox for Gnucash, so I cannot swear to Google Drive
or One Drive. It is easy enough to test. Create a test file with gnucash on
computer 1, add a few transactions, close gnucash on computer 1, upload the
file to the cloud of your choice, download at a second computer, open the
file with gnucash on the second computer.

Big Gotcha here....notice I said **close** Gnucash on computer 1. If both
computer 1 and computer 2 have gnucash open at the same time, both
computers make changes to the file, and then close gnucash, you will loose
transactions or worse. Gnucash is not a **multi-user** program. Caveat
Emptor.....

Mark

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Marty Engelking <engelkings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Plutocrat - You mentioned "You could use something like Dropbox to sync the
> files between two computers. This would also sync the lock file, which
> would prevent you from opening the file on two computers at the same time."
> Would this also apply to One Drive or Google Drive?
>
> Thank You
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:11 AM, L. D. James <ljames at apollo3.com> wrote:
>
> > On 04/13/2015 03:53 AM, Hans Karman wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry, my ignorance was in the way.  I can in fact put the full file
> name,
> >> including the computer name, in the OPEN dialogue.  I was blinded by the
> >> fact I wasn't allowed to see the other computer in the browse screen.
> >>
> >> Hans Karman
> >> Canberra, Australia
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gnucash-user
> >> [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+hans=karman.id.au at gnucash.org] On Behalf
> Of
> >> L.
> >> D. James
> >> Sent: 13 April 2015 15:29
> >> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: Gnucash on two computers
> >>
> >> It's unlikely that he's having any problems at this time.  I gave him
> >> the steps to test.  I also tested the steps in my environment with both
> >> Windows and Linux.  They both work flawlessly.
> >>
> >> If I were him, I'd setup a local file sharing network.  But I know lots
> >> of people have more confidence in cloud than their own environment.  I
> >> guess even I have a certain amount of confidence when I consider all the
> >> data I sync in my phone to Google.  Very few people consider Google or
> >> Apple.com a risk for their personal data.
> >>
> >> In all my experience I only know one person that says he doesn't use his
> >> phone for contacts because he doesn't trust having his data sync's in
> >> the clouds.  While that one person says it, I'd be surprised if he
> >> really doesn't.  People are even starting to use their phones as
> >> electronic credit cards.
> >>
> >> -- L. James
> >>
> >>  How are you doing, Hans.  You sent an email message to my private
> > email.  This is discouraged because the maillist can't participate in the
> > resolution.
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> > I'm glad to help.
> >
> > I'm replying to your personal email to me with a CC to the maillist.  You
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> > -- L. James
> >
> > --
> > L. D. James
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