[GNC] Scary moment

[David G. Pickett]

Yes, currently we depend on a lock file, which is sensible in a very traditional model.  In many apps, you can mod a file in one app and other app notifies you that the file changed and you can reload, like two text editors on the same machine.

If you have unsaved changes in the less current GnuCash instance, that is a mixed deal of your own making (merging changes is an AI or diff3 sort of problem).  But if you are modifying and saving successively on two machines in cloud backed files, it'd be "nice" (a modest enhancement) if the less current GnuCash instance read in the changes, or offered to/warned you.  Just a thought in passing!

-----Original Message-----
From: R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com>
To: David G. Pickett <dgpickett at aol.com>
Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 5:08 pm
Subject: Re: [GNC] Scary moment

If I  have GnuCash on one machine and then attempt to open it on another machine, there is a warning that the LCK file is present. (I don't know if that was what you intended to ask, but I have done this a couple of times by accident).

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:10 AM David G. Pickett via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:


If open on multiple machines, does gnuCash notice save on one machine in open session on other machine, as many apps do when the local copy is updated ?  Should it?
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