David, Does that method create scads of automatic backups in the Dropbox folder?
David Carlson On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 7:26 PM David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Bob > > I have been using Dropbox to do this between 2 Linux computers (desktop and > laptop) and a Windows10 laptop for several years now. The files usually > sync > within a minute or two of making any local changes on any one computer > when > the others are connected to the network. The dropbox daemon seems to > respond > to changes of the content directly as they occur and not work ona time > schedule. You do have to be careful not to have or leave files open on > multiple computers at the same time however. > > You do need to download and setup the requisite Dropbox daemons on each > machine and link them to the same Dropbox account but once that is done it > is almost totally transparent. Usually there is a link on the signin page > for Dropbox on the web which will download the app. Usually sense the OS > and > downloads the appropriate version. not familiar with Macs. Most Linux > distros have the dropbox daemon available for their software sources. > Windows 10i think you can also get from the store. > > Originally I copied my datafile to my dropbox account using the web > interface and then setup the Dropbox folder on each machine to sync to the > account on their server. Then used file open from within GnuCash to > navigate > to the local Dropbox account on each machine to open it. After that it > should Save to the local Dropbox account copy you opened it from which will > then sync to the server folder and in turn sync to the other computers. > > David Cousens > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
