[moneydance] Cross platform, sharing data files, license, family plan?

[Lloyd Jones]

On 20 Oct 2008 at 23:20, Robby Workman wrote:

>
>On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:53:16 -0400
>dancingbrook <dancingbrook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, that of course should have been iDisk, which appears as a  
>> network drive on Mac and windows, yet sits on Apple's cloud. The
>> point of the question is can MD work with it regardless of where the
>> data file sits? Some apps want data stored in a specific place.
>
>
>On Linux, the Moneydance configuration files are expected to be in
>$HOME/.moneydance but the datafiles themselves can be anywhere.  I
>don't know off-hand where the configuration files are stored in
>Windows, but the same appears to be true for datafiles anyway.  Long
>story short, it works here, so I wouldn't expect any problems for you.
>
>-RW

I do not believe Moneydance has support for multiple users simultaneously 
accessing the same data file. If that is what you plan to do, I think you will be 
in trouble.

If you are planning on having a separate data file for each user but located 
on the same device, then you are in business.

If you want different users to update the same Moneydance data file, then 
you will have to manually ensure that only one user has the data file open at 
any given time.

Lloyd