Cross Platform, Cross Version

[David Carlson]

On 7/12/2015 11:52 AM, sajan at noppix.com wrote:
> I've just started a new business and want to use GnuCash for all
> accounting and do it myself, outsourcing my single employee payroll to
> someone else.  I'm primarily a Linux user and was thinking about
> syncing the company files to our file server and opening them up from
> different laptops and computers.  I'm wondering will I encounter any
> issues if one laptop opens up the company files with GNUCash version
> XXX, make some changes, save.  Then I open it up on a different
> computer with a slightly different version of GNUCash?
>
> Reason I ask is because I have a mix of laptops and computers, some
> running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, some running Ubuntu 15.04.  Plus, I if I
> don't get my way, I might have a single Windows 7 computer as well. 
> All of these will have different versions of GNUCash, but will open
> the same set of files off the file server.
>
> Let me know if this is a giant disaster waiting to happen, or if I
> should be okay.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sajan Parikh
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The disaster, as you no doubt already suspect, is having the data file
open on more than one computer at a time.  All too often I get
interrupted and I fail to close the file when I get up to refill my
coffee cup.

David C