Re: Controlling Gnucash from 2 computers

[Christopher J. Holly]

Resilio  Sync  is  an  effective  and  relatively quick way to do this
between  two  computers,  and does not leave anything in the cloud, if
that matters. --Chris

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Re: Controlling Gnucash from 2 computers

[Nelson Handcock]

I have been using Gnucash by putting the file on a dropbox folder, and then
using the dropbox app for Windows 10 on each of the computers to access and
synch the dropbox folder and its contents. The LCK file that Gnucash
creates is saved to the dropbox account, and so other users on other
computers will be alerted.

Most of the time it works fine. I sometime keep a local copy of the file
just in case.

You do need to be a bit patient each time you want to use it by making sure
the dropbox app has completely synched the account before you start
editing. I usually make sure the other user is aware of the date/time last
saved of the main file - that way they can see if they are opening the most
recent one on their computer.

There have been a couple of times things have gotten out of synch - I put
it down to user error - loss of network connectivity, etc - causing the
dropbox account to be out of synch with the local instance. Fortunately
I've been able to re-build from one of the older stable archive versions
without too much drama.

Hope this helps...


Thanks & Regards,

Nelson Handcock
0409 149919

http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 3:22 AM, Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.montele...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Martijn,
>
> It is not a good idea to have two people editing the data file at the same
> time. At some point in the future, this will be possible, but it is not
> safe right now.
>
> Two people can use the software from two different machines (with the file
> access over a network) but only one should have the file open at a time.
>
> Also, please be sure to not click ‘reply’ when you want to start a new
> topic and be sure to create a meaningful subject line so your discussion
> will thread properly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
> > On Feb 9, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Martijn  wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can GNU Cash be controlled by 2 computers?
> > I have an XP computer and a Windows 10 computer and it would be great if
> somehow I can make the XP computer see the Windows 10 computer GNU file.
> This way 2 people could create invoices at the same time, maybe?
> >
> > Sent from cell phone
> > On Feb 9, 2018 12:00 PM, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote:
> >>
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> >>2. Re: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff
> >>   Combined into a Single Share (Wm)
> >>3. Latest version for Windows? (cicko)
> >>4. Re: Price Retrieval Failure, Part 2 (John Ralls)
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 20:50:40 +
> >> From: Wm 
> >> To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org
> >> Subject: Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please
> >> Message-ID: 
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> >>
> >> On 07/02/2018 18:17, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> >>
> >>> Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal
> precision. Did that solve the small fraction issue?
> >>
> >> That isn't a good way to go if your base currency is a 2 decimal one.
> >> Creating a commodity with the appropriate number of decimals and using
> >> that is better.
> >>
> >> By chance there is another more recent but simpler thread
> >>
> >> ===
> >> Subject: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff Combined
> >> into a Single Share
> >> ===
> >>
> >> it is the same basic problem.  "put the other leg in equity" doesn't
> >> work for me and the variance is actually the value not the price which
> >> is what makes them different to traded investments which gnc deals with
> >> well as you can just put the the date and price in for market traded
> things.
> >>
> >>> As for modeling the investment, I?m not familiar with p2x. I?ll let
> someone else chime in who is.
> >>>
> >>> On that note, I tried looking it up but didn?t come up with anything
> useful explaining it. Do you have a few info links I could pour over? Once
> I understand what it is, I might be able to help modeling it in Gnucash.
> >>>
> >>> The only related thing I found was Peer-to-Peer lending but that
> didn?t involve negative interest rates as far as I could tell.
> >>
> >> peer to peer is now p2x in common terms because the second 

Re: Controlling Gnucash from 2 computers

[Adrien Monteleone]

Martijn,

It is not a good idea to have two people editing the data file at the same 
time. At some point in the future, this will be possible, but it is not safe 
right now.

Two people can use the software from two different machines (with the file 
access over a network) but only one should have the file open at a time.

Also, please be sure to not click ‘reply’ when you want to start a new topic 
and be sure to create a meaningful subject line so your discussion will thread 
properly.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Feb 9, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Martijn  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Can GNU Cash be controlled by 2 computers?
> I have an XP computer and a Windows 10 computer and it would be great if 
> somehow I can make the XP computer see the Windows 10 computer GNU file. This 
> way 2 people could create invoices at the same time, maybe?
> 
> Sent from cell phone
> On Feb 9, 2018 12:00 PM, gnucash-user-requ...@gnucash.org wrote:
>> 
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>> Today's Topics:
>> 
>>1. Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please (Wm)
>>2. Re: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff
>>   Combined into a Single Share (Wm)
>>3. Latest version for Windows? (cicko)
>>4. Re: Price Retrieval Failure, Part 2 (John Ralls)
>>5. Re: Latest version for Windows? (John Ralls)
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 20:50:40 +
>> From: Wm 
>> To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: p2x modelling in gnc, help me think, please
>> Message-ID: 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>> 
>> On 07/02/2018 18:17, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
>> 
>>> Go to Preferences > General > Numbers. You can increase your decimal 
>>> precision. Did that solve the small fraction issue?
>> 
>> That isn't a good way to go if your base currency is a 2 decimal one. 
>> Creating a commodity with the appropriate number of decimals and using 
>> that is better.
>> 
>> By chance there is another more recent but simpler thread
>> 
>> ===
>> Subject: How to Manually Track a Collection of Stocks & Stuff Combined 
>> into a Single Share
>> ===
>> 
>> it is the same basic problem.  "put the other leg in equity" doesn't 
>> work for me and the variance is actually the value not the price which 
>> is what makes them different to traded investments which gnc deals with 
>> well as you can just put the the date and price in for market traded things.
>> 
>>> As for modeling the investment, I?m not familiar with p2x. I?ll let someone 
>>> else chime in who is.
>>> 
>>> On that note, I tried looking it up but didn?t come up with anything useful 
>>> explaining it. Do you have a few info links I could pour over? Once I 
>>> understand what it is, I might be able to help modeling it in Gnucash.
>>> 
>>> The only related thing I found was Peer-to-Peer lending but that didn?t 
>>> involve negative interest rates as far as I could tell.
>> 
>> peer to peer is now p2x in common terms because the second peer is no 
>> longer an individual in most cases and almost all lending goes through 
>> an intermediary.  very few actual p2p transactions happen.
>> 
>> the lending can now involve: personal loans (how it started), mortgages, 
>> agriculture loans, 3rd world specific investments, invoice factoring, 
>> business loans, pawnbroking, etc and possibly some other stuff you and I 
>> probably don't want to know about or get involved in :)  I stick to 
>> reliable exchanges.
>> 
>> Perhaps I should have left out the word "interest" if it is confusing. 
>> A non zero return occurs if you buy an interest bearing instrument at 
>> anything other than par.  You are buying someone else's interest (a 
>> premium) or getting some of their interest because they don't want the 
>> risk of the principle (a discount).  There are loads of other reasons 
>> for buying and selling, of course.
>> 
>> The point is interest and other returns are *traded* and I'm not finding 
>> it obvious how to do this in gnc as part of a composite tx.
>> 
>> gnc likes simple investment returns
>> 
>> one leg asset receiving
>> one leg income to balance
>> third leg asset to join them up
>> 
>> or similar.
>> 
>> Maybe I should change the way I work so that I produce 3 tx per month
>> 
>> asset change
>> income
>> and the one gnc wants
>> 
>> I'm certain my tx is right in accounting terms but