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

[David H]

Ah there's also the other use case - I didn't think it would handle the use
case where I have only one laptop on and I update Gnucash data on it and
then shutdown that laptop and then fire up another pc elsewhere in the
house.  It seemed to me that this meant the other pc wouldn't be updated -
sounded like I'd need a NAS as intermediate storage so that the files were
always sync'd ok ??

Cheers David H.


On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 19:56, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Yes I looked at Syncthing a little while ago but at the time it just
> seemed easier to go with the existing Dropbox/FreeFileSync setup.  I wasn't
> sure how Syncthing would handle the situation where for example I had a
> laptop turned off for a period of time that wasn't sync'd up and I then
> fired it up while I was out and about.  I assume from your "across the
> 'public' internet" comment this would be handled ok as well, if that's the
> case I might take another look at it :-)
>
> Cheers David H.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 18:13, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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