Multi Devices

[Michael Hendry]

> On 20 Aug 2015, at 23:06, Mike or Penny Novack <mpnovack at mtdata.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/20/2015 4:57 PM, Charles Dandridge wrote:
>> 
>> Are you able to place a single file in your Dropbox and it show on all three devices?
>> 
> In other words, for the moment, forget about gnucash (because that is just a special case of a general problem).
> 
> Can you create ANY file on the dropbox and successfully access it from all of your devices?
> 
> IF you can do that (first step) then create a directory (file folder) on the drop box. You then create the your gnucash file from any of the devices and do a "save as" into that directory. You should now be able to open this from within gnucash on all of your devices. When the file is opened, the lock file will be created in this same directory (so all of your devices would see it if the lock is active).

If I recall correctly, it was pointed out on this list some time back that the propagation of the lock file across various Dropbox-synchronised folders is not instantaneous, so it can’t be relied on to stop two users opening the same Gnucash file at the same time.

Michael

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