[GNC] two copies on the same computer.

Raymond Smith raymondbarrettsmith at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 14:50:28 EST 2020


Great, thanks for the info, that's reassuring.

Ray

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:57 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> The main problem, at least on Linux, is that the user configuration files
> are
> shared between two intsances which means saved reports, customization etc
> are shared.  If each data file requires separate customized reports etc.,
> it
> may get a little confusing. I have never had any interactions between two
> instances runningon separate data files in terms of data file interaction.
> I
> often have had  a production stable version running and also may be running
> an instance of one of the development branches open at a different test
> data
> file with no difficulties. Having two instances open on the one data file
> is
> likely to be problematical but the file locking should stop you doing that
> unless you override it.
>
> if you require complete separation, use a different user login for each
> open
> data file which will then maintain separation of the user configuartion
> files.
>
> David Cousens
>
>
>
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