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

[Renato Brazioli]

I'll add another bit of concern, about using iDisk.

I'm not using it at moment, but I did when it was .Mac and, at least in my
setup, it was loosing the connection from time to time (mainly when working
from office, behind a firewall).

Now, what are the chances that your Moneydance file becomes corrupted ?

I'd be rather confident to use it with a network drive in a LAN, but not
with this kind of services.

I think Moneydance is a very good product, but it is not conceived for a
networking/multi user access. That is not neither a good point or a bad
point.

On the other side, I use it happily since many years in a mixed Mac OS X /
Windows environment, with the data file file stored on USB Key, synchronized
with a folder on my Mac, that is then saved by Time Machine.

    R.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Lloyd Jones <lloyd.jones at telus.net> wrote:

> 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
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