[GNC] Linux and Windows using same data? (Ze'ev Ionis)

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 09:50:06AM -0800, Mike Brady wrote:
> 
> Absolutely. All you need is to have the data files on a disk that's 
> accessible to both. For Linux, you will need to get access to your 
> Onedrive if that's your preference: I use abraunegg's Onedrive client 
> which works well. Note the problem with certain versions of the curl 
> library that may require some work to manage since many Linux 
> distributions don't provide the current libraries. If you dual-boot 
> Linux and Windows on the same computer, some Linux distributions can 
> read/write NTFS volumes on the same machine, so again you can have 
> access to the same files from both places.
> 
An alternative which avoids depending on any sort of external services
is to use syncthing.  This can synchronise files directly from a Linux
system to a Windows system.  I use it to synchronise GnuCash between
my laptop and my home desktop machine and it works very well.

It's totally transparent in the sense that I don't have to do anything
for the files to be synchronised. If I make some changes on the laptop
they will be there on the desktop too within a few seconds.

The only thing you mustn't do, of course, is to run GnuCash on both
systems at the same time.

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Chris Green