[GNC] Gnucash on Dropbox

[Bob Crochelt]

Hi,

I have a setup similar to yours.  gnucash folder is on Dropbox. I can 
only have gnucash open on one machine at a time.  Otherwise it complains 
about the lock file.  But if I only have it open on one machine, all is 
well.

Not sure this will help...

Bob Crochelt

On 7/22/21 7:54 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> 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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Bob Crochelt MD, PhD, FACS
Ukiah, CA