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 <gnucash-user-bounces+john.layman=ieee....@gnucash.org> 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 > <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. > > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
