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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:30:22PM +1000, David H wrote:
> 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.
> 
As I've noted elsewhere in this thread Syncthing is excellent and
works 'transparently' once set up, no need for the user to do anything
to keep files synchronised.  It's pretty simple to set up too.

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Chris Green