We kept the file in Dropbox, and it worked fine just as long as only one of us used the file at a time. We tried this with Gnuj Cash, and it did appear to work. The files would synchronize. But then, it seemed that the files were not synchronizing correctly. So We decided to keep the files on a USB flash drive, and pass it back and forth as needed.
That is of course safer. But best think of a directory being passed between, not just the file within that directory. That is why it is working properly on the USB stick and not with dropbox. The mechanism that gnucash uses to prevent multiple SIMULTANEOUS users is to check the directory the data file is in for the existence of a "lock file".
Using the same data file, the behavior is different between computers. It is as though a setting was made in some software switches that make this happen only on my computer. To address this, I uninstalled, then reinstalled v.Build ID: 5.6+(2024-03-30), which is the same as on the other computer. I also saved the file with a new name, but that has no effect.
Things like preferences, what filters are set, etc. are NOT kept in the "data file". So there are other files you would need to be sharing. As a general note, in no good software is data stored in the program itself. Data belongs is data files, so changing the executable (reinstalling) never going to work, or if it did, you probably don't want to be using that program.
However, when I went to open Gnu Cash, a history list of previously opened files appeared in the file menu. This told me that there were settings on my computer that did not get removed during the uninstall.
Those setting would be DATA, not program.
All of the files at the links in the "about" screen had been cleared, including those in program files and in appdata/roaming.
You, as a computer "user" have a data directory where all your user data resides. You get to choose WHERE your gnucash books will get stored (what directory) but the program gnucash has to store somewhere the location of the last four. THAT is the history data you see in the gnucash directory in appdata. In other words, if you want one of those recent ones, gnucash can let you select from a list <<if you wanted some other data file you would have to type in the name, gnucash only remembers "last four".
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