[GNC] Changing where my data is held

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Sun Feb 13 01:28:10 EST 2022


On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:17:32 +1000
David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some advice?  I ALWAYS update my gnucash data file locally and then
> copy it up to a shared drive, NAS/Cloud/Whatever using FreeFileSync (
> https://freefilesync.org/) - versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
> Just means depending on what pc I'm on I have to be a bit pedantic to
> make sure I sync up the latest updated one and sync it down on the
> other pc if I'm not on my usual machine.  Once you have set it up
> it's pretty easy to click on "Compare" to see if any changes have
> been made and then click on "SYNC" to download the changed version.
> Bonus with this is if you stuff some updates up you can just re-sync
> the old file back down and over-write the botched file :-)
> 
> Cheers David H.


I use software which automatically syncs, and in that case you need to
exclude LCK and log and dated-gnucash files from sync.

Liz


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