[GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

[David H]

Randix,

Be careful here....

Your gnucash file should be named something along the lines
of 2020-12-Dec.gnucash

These files with date and time embedded in the name are backup files - it
seems like you opened a backup file from Dec 5 and worked on it at some
stage???

2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205100356.gnucash
2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205073851.gnucash

Liz, you beat me to it by about a minute.

Regards David H.

On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 17:21, randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nelson... although I have GnuCash installed on 2 separate laptops, I only
> actively use GnuCash on one laptop (with the data regularly backed up on an
> external drive).  The other laptop installation is just in case my primary
> laptop crashes (and I could then copy one of the backed up data files for
> it).
>
> I have no need to regularly access the GnuCash data file from 2 different
> sources, however, just out of curiosity as I've seen the dropbox usage
> referenced not infrequently here...  When I save my GnuCash it does not
> write the same file name each time, eg
>
> 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205100356.gnucash
> 2020-12-Dec.gnucash.20201205073851.gnucash
> etc.
>
> So, for example.
> 1. I save GnuCash data on Laptop 1.  The save goes to my dropbox directory.
> 2. On Laptop 2, I open up the saved GnuCash data file from the dropbox
> directory.
> 3. All is good.
> 4. Then on Laptop 1 I open up GnuCash, and it defaults to the last saved
> file.  I work on it.  Then save it.
> 5. All is good
> 6. But when I later open up GnuCash on Laptop 2, it's going to
> automatically
> load the last saved file which will not be the latest file which has a
> different name.
> 7. So are you saying when you use dropbox in conjunction with GnuCash, the
> user has to go to the dropbox directory, and manually load the last saved
> file after looking at the saved dates, to make sure it's not loading an
> older saved file?
>
> Hope that's clear.  Thanks.  As I say, just curious.
>
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