Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
In my experience, Dropbox and OneDrive differ considerably in performance. I have used Dropbox for years as a way to synchronize a Linkman (bookmark) database between several machines. It works quite well. Experiments using OneDrive to do the same have been unsuccessful because it is much too slow. I agree with the poster who advised against using a OneDrive folder for live data. I've experimented with OneDrive enough to discover that it creates hidden working copies of the file to be synced, broken into chunks. This entails overhead in terms of time and local disk space, and it's not difficult to see how this can create the kind of problem the OP can't imagine is due to OneDrive. -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of davidcousen...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 5:18 PM To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash I have been using GnuCash from a dropbox folder linked to both my laptop, desktop and my wifes tablet for 8-9 years with no prolems as long as only one device opens it at a time. GnuCash is not a simulataneous multiuser application. can't see why OneDrive would be any different. David Cousens On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 11:00 -0800, Jesse MacDougall wrote: > Are you running gnu cash locally and the data from onedrive? > I have not used one drive personally but I did use Quickbooks to > Dropbox in real time and that was total fail. > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:52 AM David Carlson > > wrote: > > > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup > > and log files? > > ___ > > 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. > > > > ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 09:20:51AM -, j...@billinghurst.net wrote: > I have been using One Drive for over a year for a local community business > and had no problems. > I also have another set of accounts for a charity that uses SharePoint to > save the files, again no problems. > I simply use Syncthing to synchronise the GnuCash files between my laptop and my desktop machines, it works perfectly. Obviously I need to be sure I don't run GnuCash on both machines at the same time but that's not difficult. Systems don't have to be on the same network for Syncthing to work and it will re-synchronise after a total disconnection. It means I don't rely on 'the cloud' for any backups and everything is kept on hardware that's mine. Syncthing is available for MS, Apple, Linux and Android systems and can synchronise files across all of them if you want. I do keep (off site) incremental backups as well. You do need to be able to go back in time to recover from your own errors which GnuCash (or whatever) has faithfully saved for you! :-) -- Chris Green ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive
I have been using One Drive for over a year for a local community business and had no problems. I also have another set of accounts for a charity that uses SharePoint to save the files, again no problems. Regards James Billinghurst Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:59:35 -0600 From: men...@fastmail.fm To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: [GNC] OneDrive Message-ID: <784a2c4f-cf86-47f6-9de9-4fe755413...@www.fastmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hi, I began using GnuCash at the beginning of 2021. Since the onset, I've had it in a OneDrive folder. I've had no problems with it syncing between my computers. From: David Carlson Good. I would still like to hear from others about their experience with using GnuCash and OneDrive together. 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. -- End of gnucash-user Digest, Vol 226, Issue 57 * ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
I tried OneDrive with gc for a while. It worked until it didn’t. I’m still not sure what happened, but I think MS unilaterally decided to reorganize my OneDrive setup. Gc just did not like what it did and starting one day gc would not open the file. I’m not sure what was wrong, and I couldn’t find out, because I don’t get the Windows file system at all (Unix guy here) and I just could not figure it out even with Google’s help. My hypothesis was that somewhere along the line something like a symlink was being used and gc didn’t like it. But I still don’t have a clue, and I don’t need the aggravation, so I just moved my gc files out of OneDrive. I’ve not (yet) had any problems with Office apps and OneDrive which led me to believe the problem is that gc accesses the Windows file system at too low a level, but I’m sorry, I just don’t have time these days to help debug this problem. Aside from that, I was always sweating over race conditions. Once a long time ago I lost some work because it wasn’t uploaded by OneDrive and then I force opened the file on another computer overriding the lock (bad habit cuz I had to do it fairly regularly). The work was in the cloud somewhere but it was less trouble in that case for me to retype it. So my fault, really, but I really really don’t need to expend a chunk of my brain mentally modelling the cloud sync and lock behaviour every time I use gc. Other cloud file services might provide better warnings, and might allow you to wrap the call to gc in a test that will pop a warning until the file is up-to-date in the cloud. Heck, OneDrive might provide such a wrapper too but I don’t know the system well enough. One piece of advice for everyone: when transferring data from paper to gc, keep the paper with potentially unsynced data in a separate pile until you know it’s ok (for whatever sense of ok is relevant to you … cloud synced or hard drive synced or backed up to external hd, e.g.). When you know it is synced or otherwise backed up, then file it. In addition to losing data to the cloud issue described above, I’ve also lost data the old fashioned way (power failure on a desktop without battery backup), and both times I had more trouble than necessary re-running my transactions because I managed all those slips of paper poorly. Edward From: gnucash-user on behalf of David Carlson Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:52 PM To: Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and log files? ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
I have been using GnuCash from a dropbox folder linked to both my laptop, desktop and my wifes tablet for 8-9 years with no prolems as long as only one device opens it at a time. GnuCash is not a simulataneous multiuser application. can't see why OneDrive would be any different. David Cousens On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 11:00 -0800, Jesse MacDougall wrote: > Are you running gnu cash locally and the data from onedrive? > I have not used one drive personally but I did use Quickbooks to Dropbox in > real time and that was total fail. > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:52 AM David Carlson > wrote: > > > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and log > > files? > > ___ > > 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. > > > > ___ 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.
[GNC] OneDrive
Hi, I began using GnuCash at the beginning of 2021. Since the onset, I've had it in a OneDrive folder. I've had no problems with it syncing between my computers. From: David Carlson Good. I would still like to hear from others about their experience with using GnuCash and OneDrive together. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
Gerald, I forget how it was done, but I set up OneDrive so that anything saved to my documents folder is saved to OneDrive. In fact, I think they are one and the same, but I don't remember the setting. It was so long ago. I have had no issues with it or using it for GNUCash this way. Thank You, Gyle McCollam Gyle McCollam 609.680.2326 Mobile gmccol...@live.com<mailto:gmccol...@gyleshomes.com> email From: gnucash-user on behalf of Gerald Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 2:06 PM Cc: Gnucash Users Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash I use gnucash in Windows 10 in my OneDrive folder. Occasionally (less that once a month) I'll get a file locked message when starting GC but I just delete the lock file in the folder and it's all fine. Aside from that I have no other file or save issues. I also backup the GC folder in OneDrive to Google Drive, because I'm paranoid! On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, 19:01 Jesse MacDougall, wrote: > Are you running gnu cash locally and the data from onedrive? > I have not used one drive personally but I did use Quickbooks to Dropbox in > real time and that was total fail. > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:52 AM David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and > log > > files? > > ___ > > 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. > > > > > -- > * Please consider adding jesse@macdougall.ninja to your address book. > This > will be my new address. This gmail address is being retired. > ___ > 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. > ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
I use gnucash in Windows 10 in my OneDrive folder. Occasionally (less that once a month) I'll get a file locked message when starting GC but I just delete the lock file in the folder and it's all fine. Aside from that I have no other file or save issues. I also backup the GC folder in OneDrive to Google Drive, because I'm paranoid! On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, 19:01 Jesse MacDougall, wrote: > Are you running gnu cash locally and the data from onedrive? > I have not used one drive personally but I did use Quickbooks to Dropbox in > real time and that was total fail. > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:52 AM David Carlson < > david.carlson@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and > log > > files? > > ___ > > 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. > > > > > -- > * Please consider adding jesse@macdougall.ninja to your address book. > This > will be my new address. This gmail address is being retired. > ___ > 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. > ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
Are you running gnu cash locally and the data from onedrive? I have not used one drive personally but I did use Quickbooks to Dropbox in real time and that was total fail. On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:52 AM David Carlson wrote: > Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? > > Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and log > files? > ___ > 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. > -- * Please consider adding jesse@macdougall.ninja to your address book. This will be my new address. This gmail address is being retired. ___ 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.
[GNC] OneDrive and GnuCash
Are there any GnuCash users that store their data files in One Drive? Are there any issues slow response or keeping a few weeks of backup and log files? ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive
OneDrive is not treated as a "drive", it is a folder on your system. The screen capture below shows what I get when doing a QIF import. OneDrive is listed at the top middle of the dialog box. [cid:image001.png@01D7839E.AA332930] Jack -Original Message- From: gnucash-user On Behalf Of Derek Atkins Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:39 AM To: Garry Eckermann Cc: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] OneDrive Hi, On Wed, July 28, 2021 2:56 am, Garry Eckermann wrote: > > I'm running GnuCash Version: 4.6, Build ID: 4.6+(2021-06-26) on > Windows 10 > > When importing QIF files I "browse" to find the OneDrive location, and > its not listed > > Would appreciate some advice on getting access to OneDrive as that is > where I store my files There are two possibilities: 1) GnuCash does not have permission to view OneDrive, or 2) OneDrive is not being presented as a "Drive" You can verify #2 by opening up a Terminal window and checking to see if you can get to OneDrive from the Terminal. If you cannot, then the issue is that it is not presenting as a drive. If you CAN, then it's more likely a permission problem. Good Luck, > Cheers > Garry > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com<mailto:de...@ihtfp.com> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihtfp.com%2Fdata=04%7C01%7C%7C1d3bf6ab12554e19347208d951d58581%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637630799770818770%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=4mDZxzkbemfzJwG6maUvxdsgSHBYaGMsmio99o9VU6k%3Dreserved=0 Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org<mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.gnucash.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgnucash-userdata=04%7C01%7C%7C1d3bf6ab12554e19347208d951d58581%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637630799770828769%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=du3c4SgwJOvVFnJZfeFFxMNZdnjPd1pxpFWk7elR4L0%3Dreserved=0 If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gnucash.org%2Fwiki%2FMailing_Listsdata=04%7C01%7C%7C1d3bf6ab12554e19347208d951d58581%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637630799770828769%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=81UycRMdUXzItWuSkPPe9Ehed%2Bm6N0fOo52lEnmniHU%3Dreserved=0 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. ___ 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.
Re: [GNC] OneDrive
Hi, On Wed, July 28, 2021 2:56 am, Garry Eckermann wrote: > > I'm running GnuCash Version: 4.6, Build ID: 4.6+(2021-06-26) on Windows 10 > > When importing QIF files I "browse" to find the OneDrive location, and > its not listed > > Would appreciate some advice on getting access to OneDrive > as that is where I store my files There are two possibilities: 1) GnuCash does not have permission to view OneDrive, or 2) OneDrive is not being presented as a "Drive" You can verify #2 by opening up a Terminal window and checking to see if you can get to OneDrive from the Terminal. If you cannot, then the issue is that it is not presenting as a drive. If you CAN, then it's more likely a permission problem. Good Luck, > Cheers > Garry > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant ___ 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.
[GNC] OneDrive
I'm running GnuCash Version: 4.6, Build ID: 4.6+(2021-06-26) on Windows 10 When importing QIF files I "browse" to find the OneDrive location, and its not listed Would appreciate some advice on getting access to OneDrive as that is where I store my files Cheers Garry -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ 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.
