[GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

[David Cousens]

Terry

As Nelson pointed out there is no real problem with accessing a GnuCash 
data file from multiple computers as long as the computers have access to
the file location.This is OK provided access to that file by the separate
users is not simultaneous and each user checks that the other users have
closed the file before opening it to enter data. As Nelson has pointed out
the ,LCK file will warn a user that the file is opened by another user but
that warning can be manually overridden by any other user.

GnuCash's database backends do not currently have individual record locking
capability for historical reasons associated with its implementation and
that would be necessary to allow users simultaneous access to the data file
without loss of data. 

This is projected as a future improvement but is contingent on a rewrite of
major sections of the core code some of which is underway, however there is
no definite time frame at the moment.

David Cousens



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