That's good to know, thanks, Gyle and Richard. I am aware of the frailty (read "insecurity") of cloud storage and do have copies on my own server.
I will give the USB suggestion a try! Thanks! Megan in Sydney *GnuCash -- **Version: 5.13 -- **Build ID: 5.12+(2025-06-28) -- * *Finance::Quote: *1.66 (2025-10-02) *Windows 10 Home -- **Version: 22H2 -- **OS Build: 19045.5011* On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 04:29, R Losey <[email protected]> wrote: > The short answer is that yes, you can do this, as long as you don't run > GnuCash simultaneously on multiple machines. > > However, you may want to consider the following things: > > 1) How secure are files stored in the cloud? Could someone at Dropbox > access them? Do you REALLY want your financial information at the potential > mercy of others? > > 2) Cloud storage is at the mercy of the cloud - witness the recent AWS > problems. It is far better to store critical data in a place that you have > control of. > > If you just want to enter expenses while traveling, you could get a USB > drive, copy your main data file to it, and use that while traveling to > enter expenses. Upon return, you'd just copy the gnucash data file back to > you regular location. > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM Megan Tilley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I use Dropbox for all my important data. >> I have one instance of GNUcash installed on one machine. This is the >> Version 5.13 and Finance::Quote 1.66. >> >> I am about to go travelling, and my question is: can I run another >> instance >> of GNUcash on my travel laptop without including F::Q? >> By that, I mean that I install GC without the F::Q addition. >> >> I only want to track my travel expenses and do not need to update my >> investments while travelling, so I thought I could have a second GC >> accessing the 'datafile' synced on Dropbox. >> >> When I return home, my travel laptop is turned off, and I would hope the >> syncing of the travel laptop while travelling would sync with DB, and I >> could then access the updated data on my usual main computer. >> >> Thanks! >> Megan in Sydney >> >> *GnuCash -- **Version: 5.13 -- **Build ID: 5.12+(2025-06-28) -- * >> *Finance::Quote: *1.66 (2025-10-02) >> >> *Windows 10 Home -- **Version: 22H2 -- **OS Build: 19045.5011* >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. >> > > > -- > _________________________________ > Richard Losey > [email protected] > Micah 6:8 > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
