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From: Bob Newman on 17 Jan 2010 13:31
I realize this is not recommended but...
I have Quicken Deluxe 2009 and two home computers linked together on a
wireless network. If both computers have Quicken installed on them it there
any reason they cannot share the same data file? Again, I know Quicken does
not recommend it... but will it work?

Thanks in advance... Bob

From: JimH on 17 Jan 2010 14:50
Bob Newman wrote:
> I realize this is not recommended but...
> I have Quicken Deluxe 2009 and two home computers linked together on a
> wireless network. If both computers have Quicken installed on them it
> there any reason they cannot share the same data file? Again, I know
> Quicken does not recommend it... but will it work?
>
> Thanks in advance... Bob

I had difficulty with it. I decided that it wasn't worth the effort for me.

My experience was that you could share the file by mapping the directory
as a drive. Otherwise, it won't be found by Quicken on the next
invocation. I just mounted it as a "Q:" drive. The file could only be
opened by one computer at a time, as a sharing violation prevented the
second computer from accessing it.

When accessing the data from the remote computer, I had regular warnings
from Windows about unwritten data. I didn't have any file corruption,
but I decided that is wasn't safe enough for me.

Your mileage may vary.
--
Jim
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