Windows 10: All I want to do is share one file on two computers....

Our checkbook is on my wife's computer. I have installed the same software on my computer (on the same network as hers) and tried to make it see her data, but I guess I am senile or something. (40 years ago I was a computer programmer...) Both computers are on W10.

How can I do that? (a link to someplace that explains it in English would be great)

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Can I Share All Data between Two Computers?

Hi, all, is it possible for me to take all of my files on my Computer 1 and set up an ad hoc (or hopefully LAN, or, better yet, cloud-enabled) network with my Computer 2 to copy all of Computer 1's personal apps and files to Computer 2? I plan on performing
a factory reset with Computer 2 and bring it back to Windows 8, to upgrade it back to Windows 8.1, then 10. Can I do this all? My Computer 1 has Windows 10, upgraded from Windows 7.

 

Can I Share All Data between Two Computers?

Here is my full intenton:

I have about 48 GB of Hard Disk space occupied with who-knows-what and apps/files of my own on Computer 2. I also have a recovery partition (on a different drive) that came with the computer when I first received it. I had to do a previous reset of the computer,
but my personal files and Win10 weren't harmed, but my apps weren't so lucky. Otherwise, I'd have had so much less data available. My first question: Will a factory reset delete the data on the Recovery Drive?

Also, when I first received the computer, a number of apps by HP, its manufacturer, were on it, but in my app-deleting, setting-fixing reset I did a little while before, I lost all of the HP apps. My second question: Will I get those apps back?

I had upgraded, as you know, from Windows 8, then 8.1, to 10. My third question: Can I use the ISO provided by you to jump from Windows 8 over Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? If so, would it be simpler to just clean install Windows 10 by using HP Automatic Repair?

Before I clean install Windows 10, I want to back up my own files (Pictures, Documents, Archives, Apps, etc.) that were not in my computer when I got it. My fourth question: Can I use another computer (maybe with OneDrive, or just by moving the files temporarily)
to back up said files before my great Factory Reset?

I want to set up a network with one of my other computers to have all of Computer 1's data on Computer 2. My fifth question: If I FR my PC (or not), can I use a cloud service like OneDrive to share everything between the two computers I mentioned, so if
Computer 1 has anything on it, it would also be on computer 2, or vice versa?

If you have any questions, or are confused by what I said, don't hesitate to mention your case.

 

You can always get a network drive and save the file on there. Only problem is to know what this software that you are using. Mint .com is a better way of tracking checking, savings and other accounts. Now days you will really not find many programs that use a static file on a computer for any kind of accounting, unless you had created this one on your own.

 

A simple way would be to use google drive install the drive on all pcs use the same account save the file to the google folder and it will apear on other pc you can run the software from google drive the best bit is its all backed up on the cloud automaticaly

 

I was puzzling over how to use Google drive, when I saw One Drive just sitting there on my file explorer. I have never used it, but it was easy enough to do. Thanks much for the help.

 

Never trust keeping the only copy on someone else's system. It is fine if you are going to be away from the computers and need to pull something up. Otherwise with stuff like financial information, it should only be kept locally. There is a reason why government agencies and medical Enterprises, do not store live copies out in the wild. If they do store them off sight, it usually done on a Amazon S3 server that they are using for access between sites to save on bandwidth when most satellite locations may only use a T1.

 

Is this because I don't want anyone seeing my checkbook, or because it might get lost?

 

It would be that if your legal affairs have to be settled and the login information is not in your Will or Trust, your Estate is screwed in trying to get that info from say Google or Microsoft (Microsoft will not even talk to you unless you are a Enterprise customer. Google wants a legal petition from a judge to release those records on their severs). That is another reason to keep a updated copy of all financial info and pictures that you and your wife wants for when you do go, also on a DVD or USB stick in an bag that is static and magnetic not capable bag with the estate affairs papers and various Living wills and trusts. The login info can be kept in a sealed envelope with security tape, so when they do get the file out to take to the lawyer, it is still sealed until opened to settle the affairs.

I keep a copy of certain items on my iCloud to allow me to access from my laptop and my iPhone. All important stuff is on a local NAS and a backup of that data is on the NAS.

Keeping a secured copy of stuff on my phone and backup to the iCloud, it is easier to me if I have to take care of something for my mom or as I am now, working on updating my legal affairs because of my health.

 

A shared google or one drive would be fine unless you are a tinfoil hat sort *Wink

 

My wife and son know how to get all my passwords, so that much is covered.

How does ransomware affect One Drive?
I back up to an external drive that I know will be toast, but also to Idrive. They assure me that even if an bad copy is put on, the previous copy will still be there. But One Drive will just have the one copy.

 

Has nothing to do with Tin foil. Financial data can be lost if you forget to write down the login credentials for the person handling your estate if something happens to you. That is why it is best to keep it local, not on some third party company that you basically need more lawyers than they have to get the data off of their servers.

 

Not so much how to get the passwords. Having them written down makes sure that during an event that you or your wife pass away. The very first thing that a person handling the estate is looking for the folder or papers for that information. I was the only one who knew where my next door neighbor kept her financial passwords and wills. Her own daughters were too shook up from her passing that morning, they did not even know where it was at that moment, since they had to be at the funeral home later that afternoon.

Trust me on this. Login information with the will/trust documents, along with account numbers, addresses for financials, phone numbers, local contact person or office if there is one, same for if you have a pension and who they contact. Makes it a lot easier when things can change in a blink of an eye.

 

I use OneDrive to store the data from my checking program (Moneydance) so that I can use Moneydance from any one of my computers. Just to be safe I have Moneydance set to make backups to a different folder on OneDrive and I have Easus setup to make a weekly backup to a local drive. I don't have any personal info entered so if by chance my OneDrive account was to get hacked it wouldn't do the hacker any good.

 

I imagine very few people do this but a in the event of my death list is very helpful.