Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-26 Thread Holipac
The Lacie drive (just an external HDD with an Ethernet connection) is connected to our network (plugged into router), and we connect to the network either view network cable or wireless. We then mount this disk as an attached drive (SMB), and can then open the .myo file (single user at a t

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge? The End

2006-11-25 Thread Alex
Well here it is straight from the horse's mouth: Account Edge version 6 multi-user issue === We wish to advise that we are no longer selling network licences for MYOB AccountEdge. This applies to all versions for both new and existi

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-25 Thread Alex
On 25/11/2006, at 9:57 AM, Rod wrote: Hi Alex, Does this mean that the data file is single user, but two people can share the same file at the same time? Or one has to quit before the other can use it? If both can share at the same time, this would eliminate the need to parallels! The A

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-25 Thread Rod
Hi Alex, Does this mean that the data file is single user, but two people can share the same file at the same time? Or one has to quit before the other can use it? If both can share at the same time, this would eliminate the need to parallels! Seeya Rod! On 24/11/2006, at 11:06 PM, A

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-25 Thread Holipac
I ran AccountEdge with the data file on the same iMac, no problems. Subsequently I now have it on a network attached Lacie drive. So three users with three Macs could share a data file on an external drive (and not require an extra Mac). There was indeed an upgrade process to the datafil

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-24 Thread Alex
Hi Wamugians One thing to be aware of is that AccountEdge requires the data file to be on a hard drive that does not belong to any of the users' Macs (this is different to Premier where it can reside on a user's machine). Therefore 3 users require 4 Macs. The data file is cross platform com

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-24 Thread Holipac
Rod, Just did this conversion recently. All your data is retained. The file format is readable by Mac and PC, so I just send off my data file to my accountant, and they load it up under Windows. When I switched to Account Edge, I just opened up the existing file ... there was some kind of a

MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-24 Thread Rod
Hi All! Big question here, as I have to opportunity to swap out all our PCs at work to Macs :-) We currently run Premier MYOB on the PC. Can I import the file into AccountEdge on the Mac? Are there a lot of things we lose in the process? Are Premier and AccountEdge quite close in featu