[GNC] Symlinking synced prefs folder: what could possibly go wrong?

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 14, 2018, at 1:43 AM, boldstripe <michael.nabble at wengam.com> wrote:
> 
> I can now use Gnucash reports on my Linux machine that I made on my Mac,
> because I symlinked each machine's prefs folder (the whole thing) to a
> common folder on pCloud Sync (a sync service like Dropbox).
> 
> What could possibly go wrong? :-)
> 
> The Gnucash file itself is also syncing (by the same service) on its own.
> 
> *Note:* I have read previous mail-list postings on migrating and syncing
> Gnucash, and they give me some hope this can work.

Should be OK, lots of users do that. The only risk is that there’s some latency that might cause a lock file to either not be present shortly after opening the file on the “other” computer or to be still present after closing it. There’s also no locking at all on the “prefs” folder so if you edit a custom report config on both systems the last one saved will be the one you get.

Regards,
John Ralls