[GNC] Will the file myStuff.gnucash work on Linux & Windows machines?

[David H]

1. Dropbox syncs between the cloud and the local pc's automagically for me
so a copy of the updated file is always copied down to the local pc into
the Dropbox folder when the pc is turned on.

2.  I run FreeFileSync manually on demand to just sync the data file in my
local Dropbox folder with my local GnuCash data folder.  You can set it up
to run automatically or on a schedule I think from memory - never bothered
with that myself tho as I want to sync when I'm happy with the GnuCash
updates I've done in the current session. Having it locally in the Dropbox
folder and the Gnucash data folder is handy when you've really screwed
things up in Gnucash - you can just copy the latest unupdated file from the
Dropbox folder back over the screwed up one in the GnuCash data folder if
worst comes to worst :-).

3. I'm just using FreeFileSync to sync the file from my local Dropbox
folder to my local Gnucash data folder.

There are other options for syncing out there such as Rsync.

Cheers David H.



On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 10:59, Fran_3 <mailbox0600 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David, you may have just solved one of our problems.
>
> Google Drive doesn't offer a sync feature for Linux, as far as I can find.
>
> 1 - I'm assuming you sync between your Dropbox account and yourlocal Linux
> or Windows PC... right?
>
> 2 - Does FreeFileSync auto sync to each computer or do you have to
> manually run it?
>
> 3 - Does it only work with Dropbox?
>
> Thanks !!!
>
>
>
>
> On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 8:24:06 PM EDT, David H <hellvee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Fran,
>
> I should perhaps add I'm assuming you save the file in the default xml
> format :-)  I'm also using Dropbox and FreeFileSync to sync the file on
> whatever pc I happen to be in front off at the time....
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 10:10, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been using the same Gnucash file on Win 7, Win 10, Ubuntu Linux &
> MacOS Big Sur without issue so yes.
>
> Cheers David H
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 10:04 am, Fran_3 via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
> Given a GnuCash file myStuff.gnucash...
> Can that file be shared and worked on on both a Windows 10 machine and a
> Linux Mint 20.0 Cinnamon machine?
> Or does GnuCash save the two files differently for Windows 10 and Linux
> Mint?
> (In our case the .gnucash file lives in the cloud so either computer can
> download it, work on it, and then re-upload it when done.)
> Thanks for any help.
>
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