I use a web service called dropbox. You can learn more about it here (www.getdropbox.com). It is a service that allows you to sync files across computers via the web. You get 2GB free or up to 50GB for $99/ year. I have MoneyWell on my iMac and my Powerbook and they sync up using dropbox. Basically as soon as a file is saved, dropbox updates the web server version and if the other computer is connected to the internet, it automatically pushes the updated version of the file to it and vice versa. The transmissions are handled securely via SSL and the files are encrypted on the web server. It works very well for me. I am careful not to be in MoneyWell at the same time my wife is but dropbox says that it will resolve these conflicts this by creating a "conflicted" version that you can then reconcile. I haven't tried that to see how it works though.
Kevin M On Mar 18, 10:07 pm, The Watkinson Family <[email protected]> wrote: > Fred, > > While I haven't tried this with a recent version, the following was > true for the 1.4 version. If you do try to open the document when it > is already open on another computer, the document is corrupted, and > you'll have to roll back to a previous back-up, so it is very > important that you deconflict with one another and close the file > before someone else opens it. I had played around with an apple > script that would create a lock file in the directory and prevent a > second user from opening the file, but I didn't get very far with it > before I had to devote my time to other things. > > Grace to you, > Blair Watkinson > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Frederick Yocum wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the prompt response. > > > Fred > > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Kevin Hoctor wrote: > > >> There's no way of locking the document so you'll just have to make > >> sure only one of you is in at once. > > >> Peace, > > >> Kevin Hoctor > >> No Thirst Software LLC > >>http://nothirst.com > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Fred D <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> I noted somewhere on the site that having two copies of Moneywell > >>> with > >>> the same license was possible, good, my wife and I can use Moneywell > >>> on our separate computers. It would be good for us to be able to > >>> access the same account data so that we can add entries or check on > >>> our 'buckets'. > > >>> I guess I can put the data on a shared drive. Our computers live in > >>> different areas of the house and often we may well want to open > >>> Moneywell at the same time. We may not know whether the other is > >>> trying open the account data file. Is this a problem? > > >>> Does Moneywell have a way of locking the data file one of us is > >>> working in it? > > >>> Cheers --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "No Thirst Software User Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/no-thirst-software?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
