[GNC] Gnucash on Dropbox

[David Cousens]

Walt,

I have the same configuration using Dropbox with multiple Linux devices
accessing the Dropbox. One limitation is that a free Dropbox account now limits
you to a maximum of three devices signed into the account. IF you also use your
dropbox with other devices that may be blocking it from synching the dropbox
folder on one or more devices. I am using GnuCash 4.6 on two Linux Mint 20.3
computers and my Android phone with no problem once I had disconnected Dropbox
on my wife's devices which were also previously logged into the same account. 

David Cousens


 On Thu, 2021-07-22 at 17:35 -0600, Walt Haas wrote:
> I have GnuCash installed on two Linux computers, with the account files 
> and logs in a Dropbox folder.  In both cases GnuCash was installed from 
> the repo.  It has worked fine for years on one computer.  When I start 
> GnuCash on the other, I get the message "GnuCash could not obtain the 
> lock for ...gnucash".  Checking the account directory there is NO file 
> *.LCK.  When I open anyway and try to save a change, I get the message 
> "Could not write backup file..."  Testing the file permissions, I do 
> indeed have write privilege for the account directory and can create and 
> edit some random file in that directory.
> 
> When I look at the account directory with command line tools, I notice 
> that no updated file has been written.  For some context, I see that 
> there is NO file $HOME/.gnucash.  There is a $HOME/.config/gnucash 
> directory but it is empty.  Could either of these play a role in telling 
> GnuCash that the account is being edited by another user?  For more 
> context, when I started GnuCash on the second computer I declined all 
> offers to teach me.
> 
> Are there any directories involved?  I don't see any hidden directories 
> in the accounts folder.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help  -- Walt
> 
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