Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

2020-12-03 Thread Adrien Monteleone
GnuCash is currently not set up to be multi-user. Multiple people can work in the same file, just not at the same time. Regards, Adrien On 12/3/20 12:23 PM, Terry Simon wrote: I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never liked it and am in the process of replacing our

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

2020-12-03 Thread David Cousens
Terry As Nelson pointed out there is no real problem with accessing a GnuCash data file from multiple computers as long as the computers have access to the file location.This is OK provided access to that file by the separate users is not simultaneous and each user checks that the other users

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

2020-12-03 Thread Liz Dodd
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:10:15 +1000 Nelson Handcock wrote: > I have my gnucash file saved in a Dropbox account. Multiple people can > access the file so long as they have the Dropbox account credentials. > > Gnucash generates a LCK file when the main file is opened, so another > person trying to

Re: [GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

2020-12-03 Thread Nelson Handcock
I have my gnucash file saved in a Dropbox account. Multiple people can access the file so long as they have the Dropbox account credentials. Gnucash generates a LCK file when the main file is opened, so another person trying to open the file at the same time as someone else will see a warning

[GNC] GNU Cash on a Central Computer

2020-12-03 Thread Terry Simon
I currently use QuickBooks for business accounting software. Never liked it and am in the process of replacing our server. We have a 5 year old version that is no longer supported so if there’s a problem migrating the program we’re out of luck. I would like a simpler program. QuickBooks is too