On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 08:46:16AM +1000, Liz Dodd wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2022 14:06:02 -0600
> John Griessen wrote:
>
> > That sounds great for two people in an office. How would you get
> > the benefit of doing bookkeeping on a laptop and then at a desktop
> > machine alternating back and
On Tue, 10 May 2022 14:06:02 -0600
John Griessen wrote:
> That sounds great for two people in an office. How would you get
> the benefit of doing bookkeeping on a laptop and then at a desktop
> machine alternating back and forth?
>
> I get a flexibility benefit using unison to sync files. I
John,
I achieve this by keeping my GnuCash files in a Dropbox account accessible from
my desktop at home, my laptop while travelling and my wife's laptop. I backup
to an NAS (full once a month with daily incrementals) which is in turn backed up
to an offsite online cloud storage and a local
On 5/10/22 14:16, John Griessen wrote:
Ah so. Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash. It would maybe look like this to launch gnucash from a shared dir
on a LAN:
$ /shared/gnucash4.10/gnucash /shared/books1/books1.gnucash
The work of putting the executable in a nonstandard
On 5/10/22 11:00, Robert Heller wrote:
I don't believe the OP is running gnucash remotely, just storing the gnucash
executable on a shared disk.
$ gnucash /shared/books1/books1.gnucash
Ah so. Then probably the OP *can* avoid 2 installs of gnucash. It would maybe look like this to launch
On 5/10/22 11:46, Chris Mitchell wrote:
Keeping the data files on shared network storage ("Windows network
share", Samba, NFS, sshfs, etc) and accessing them directly has the
advantage of real-time file locking:
I much prefer this setup, because it effectively prevents the
"accidentally edit
Keeping the data files on shared network storage ("Windows network
share", Samba, NFS, sshfs, etc) and accessing them directly has the
advantage of real-time file locking: If a running instance of Gnucash
has the data file open, then when you try to open it from another
Gnucash instance on another
On 5/10/2022 11:50 AM, John Griessen wrote:
On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote:
The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a
time. This means you will need to coordinate "who is running
GnuCash" at
any particular moment.
I use gnucash on two linux machines
At Tue, 10 May 2022 10:09:55 -0600 John Griessen wrote:
>
> On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote:
> > Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and
> > sharing just the data file.
>
> I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via
>
On 5/9/22 10:57, Westshire Realty wrote:
Prefer to avoid maintaining two separate apps intalled on devices and sharing
just the data file.
I'm not aware that gnucash can run remotely without you making a way via programs like vnc or xwindows, which sounds like extra
work on a mac. It's easy
On 5/9/22 11:07, Derek Atkins wrote:
The main gotcha is that only one person can have the data file open at a
time. This means you will need to coordinate "who is running GnuCash" at
any particular moment.
I use gnucash on two linux machines with a sync program called unison keeping the data
Hi,
On Mon, May 9, 2022 12:57 pm, Westshire Realty wrote:
> Small business (2 mac users) wishing to share a gnucash db over network
> share volume. Question is what are the respective do’s and donts.
>
> Would one application AND data file(s) installed on shared volume work
> best. What happens
Small business (2 mac users) wishing to share a gnucash db over network share
volume. Question is what are the respective do’s and donts.
Would one application AND data file(s) installed on shared volume work best.
What happens to application support files usually found in library folder of
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