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

[David Carlson]

dancingbrook wrote:
> 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).
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>   
Regarding file corruption: I have frequently corrupted files for some 
unknown reason.  Since my preferences are set to keep one backup per 
day, I just create an extra backup when I make major data entries by 
using the save as command.  Then I close MD and click on the regular 
file Icon that I have on my (Windoze) desktop.  This procedure should 
also work with networked files.

Dave