If your Dropbox directory on your computer is logged and synced into your DropBox account on their server, there should be no problem. The free DropBox account however does have limitations on the number of devices which can attach to an account on the server usually a max of three.
Dropbox has always installed seamlessly in my experience both with Windows and Linux. The permisssions on Linux are the standard permissions for any sub folder of your home directory drwxr-xr-x (octal 40755) and the permissions of any subfolder should be the same. I would check for the <filename>.LCK file in the same directory/folder in the Dropbox folder/directory as your data file on each computer. Make sure GnuCash is not running on either computer and then if the lockfile is there in the folder delete it and try again. It can take a few minutes to sync with the other computer and delete the lock file on it as well when you delete it on one computer so it may be better to do it manually on both computers On Sun, 2026-04-05 at 13:15 -0400, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > On 4/5/2026 5:34 AM, Dimitrios Dalagiorgos wrote: > > Dear Fred, > > > > Yes, I can create a new file in that directory. I can even make a > > copy of > > the original .gnucash file, but I can't save changes to that file > > either. > > So then it is NOT a problem specific to gnucash. It is with ANY data > file. > > Your problem is with Dropbox. As I understand it, you SHOULD be able > to > use Dropbox to share data between devices the way you intend. To find > out why not accessible from the second device you need to ask for > Dropbox help. There might be a DROPBOX step you have missed (telling > Dropbox "allow this to be shared). Since I am not a Dropbox user, > can't > help you. > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. -- David Cousens _______________________________________________ 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.
