Merging data.

[Nelson Handcock]

That's true but Dropbox app does allow you to work on your local copy of
the file and it will sync to the dropbox account when the connection is up.
If you know your connection drops out you'd need to log in to your Dropbox
account and check the file update date against the one on your PC.

I tried putting my GN file on Onedrive and creating a network drive that
linked to it. It never worked reliably.... network connection either went
to sleep or failed to ping and it never re-established connection.  It was
a bad experience all round!


On 15 Feb 2017 11:44 p.m., "David Carlson" <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

If your network connection is not reliable (it seems that my Wi-Fi router
is not) this may also drop your connection.

Daavid C

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 February 2017 at 22:59, Nelson Handcock <nelson.handcock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've recently set up my gnucash file on dropbox. With the dropbox app
> > installed (windows 10), I simply open the file from the dropbox folder in
> > Explorer, and I can see all the regular incremental backups being created
> > in the dropbox folder (on the internet and in Windows) perfectly fine.
> >
> > The dropbox app seems to handle syncronising the file perfectly fine -
> > every time I log on to my PC, the dropbox app starts and checks the
> > contents of the the dropbox folder on the internet.
> >
> > I am expecting another person with access to the same dropbox folder (via
> > the app) to be accessing the same gnucash file - they should be able to
> > update it and I expect when I next turn on my PC it will be synch with
> the
> > more up to date file from the dropbox folder on the internet.
> >
> > That way, you'd only need to copy your file onto your USB drive even now
> > and then as a "off site" backup for disaster recovery - how often you do
> it
> > is up to you.
>
> Just make sure that you don't both edit it at the same time, there is
> a time window during which if you both start editing it the lock will
> not be locked as it has not had time to sync the lock file. Also be
> particularly careful if you edit it when offline to make sure you
> definitely have the latest version and make sure you go online and
> resync before the other person edits it.
>
> Colin
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