Synching between iMac and MacBook Air
I have used multiple versions of Moneydance with transactions going back to 2009. I just set up Moneydance on my wife's MacBook Air so she does not have to entire receipts on the iMac. The set up worked fine using a shared folder; however, the entries she has made on her machine are not showing on mine? I have closed and reopened Moneydance on both machines.
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1 Posted by dtd on 31 Dec, 2020 02:24 AM
just a user
What version of MD are you currently using? Is it the same on your wife's macbook air?
Which Mac OS are both machines on?
Someone will ask you the above, so I'm jumping in first. I'm not an expert on syncing, but I've found the dropbox sync to be fantastic, and "network friendly". I'm not sure, but I think I've seen posts saying that a shared folder is not a good idea, especially if you are working on it simultaneously, whereas my wife and I can use MD at the same time with dropbox syncing.
Given the concept of a shared folder, my impression is that you are accessing the same datafile? If so, you aren't really syncing, you're modifying the same file. So if you don't see her entries, I have to wonder about the setup.
That's all I got. Hope it helps some.
2 Posted by dwg on 31 Dec, 2020 02:48 AM
There was qualified support for sharing a single data file located in Dropbox across users in Moneydance 2015 and earlier. There were restrictions and warnings in regards to it, hence the development of the syncing engine that was released in Moneydance 2017.
From a purely technical point of view Dropbox folder and shared folder work the same way, you have a local copy of the data in both cases and they both used a "shared" location. In the case of Dropbox folder the shared location will be a directory located in your dropbox folder. The Dropbox client handles the actual folder syncing between this folder and the folder on the server.
With shared folder the location will often be in a folder located on a file server and accessed often, for example, by a drive letter on Windows type machines.
In both cases Moneydance is comparing the shared location and the local folder and copying new files between the two.
In both cases the user is not directly interacting with the data in the shared folder, moving files is totally under software control. There is no data or file contention.
3 Posted by dtd on 31 Dec, 2020 04:01 AM
Thanks dwg. What I consider a shared folder (a shared area on the network) appears not be what Rob was talking about, given he's been using MD since 2009.
4 Posted by Rob Peterson on 31 Dec, 2020 03:36 PM
The issue appears to be attempting to use a shared folder. I switched it to Dropbox and it worked like a charm. It was odd the reference date on the drop box update was back to Feb 2020, but when it update, which took a while, everything was up to date. Thanks for the advice to switch this over to the dropbox link.
Melissa closed this discussion on 27 Jan, 2021 02:11 AM.