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J Harold W.
Helpful | Level 6
11 months ago

Changes on third-party app not syncing between three Linux distros

I have three linux distros installed on my desktop. They all have Gnucash and Dropbox. They are all connected to the same Dropbox account. I made a change in Gnucash on one of the distros and then la...
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Hannah
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11 months ago

Hey J Harold W., thanks for reaching out to us again.

If I understand correctly, you're trying to edit files through a certain third-party app on all distros, but the changes aren't syncing across all distros.

Just to check, do you have all the requirements for the Dropbox app to work correctly on your OS?

Are you having this issue with other types of files?

Is the Dropbox app "up to date" on all of them?

Let me know and we'll go from there.

J Harold W.'s avatar
J Harold W.
Helpful | Level 6
11 months ago

After looking, I am not knowledgeable enough to compile from source. So I will keep tinkering with my installs and see if I can get it to working.

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