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

[dancingbrook]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:14 AM, Renato Brazioli wrote:

> 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).

iDisk, even under .Mac has the ability to host a copy locally and the  
update to the server. In other words the working copy is just a file  
on the local drive, at least on the Mac end.

> 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.
iDisk act as a network drive.

> 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.
No intention to use it as a multiuser app. Just making it easily  
available to my son and me. We'd have to work out some method for  
being sure we didn't step on each other's revisions,

> 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.
That is god to hear.  iDisk sync will take care of keeping local and  
server matched, as long as we don't try to both open at the same time.

Hopefully someday soon, MD will have a cloud facility, to both store  
and access the data from a web browser or a local app (a la google  
docs).