Re: [GNC] Automatic Price Updates

2022-11-25 Thread john
> On Nov 25, 2022, at 12:56 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user > wrote: > > I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security prices on > first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it locks the data > file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do upon loggi

Re: [GNC] Automatic Price Updates

2022-11-25 Thread David Carlson
Is your price update so slow that you cannot wait for it to finish before proceeding with other tasks? Even when l immediately execute a File Save right after an update it only takes ten or fifteen seconds or so, far more than the actual data download time with my data file. On Fri, Nov 25, 20

Re: [GNC] Automatic Price Updates

2022-11-25 Thread Michael or Penny Novack
I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an update in the price database window and let it run in the background while I continue to work in the registers. Just an alert. When we say that while gnucash is safe for multiple sequential users but not for multiple

[GNC] Automatic Price Updates

2022-11-25 Thread rsbrux via gnucash-user
I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security prices on first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it locks the data file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do upon logging in. I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an