Re: Any better ideas for file sharing?

I would just encrypt the file and put in in Dropbox.  Share folder
with your wife's Dropbox account and you're done.  You just can't open
Moneydance at the same time on both machines.

Andy

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On Mar 26, 2012, at 1:08 AM, "Yaron Y. goland" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We run our finances off Moneydance on my main machine. My wife wants to be able to run reports and generally nose around our finances but that requires going to the main machine which for various reasons is inconvenient for her. She wanted me to put a copy of our Moneydance file on her laptop for read only purposes but this really freaked me out because that file is one stop shopping for stealing everything we own. So the compromise I came up with is the jython script below. It goes through and deletes all online service info, strips account numbers and routing numbers from all accounts, deletes all reminders and the address book. The workflow is:
>
> 1) Make a copy of the master file
> 2) Run the script below via the Jython extension
> 3) Save the copy and give to my wife
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) Any other data I can safely nuke from the master file that will make stealing the copy less useful while still leaving all the core data so my wife can run reports, investigate expenses, etc.?
>
> 2) I hate the workflow. I wanted to automatically create a copy, clean up the copy, save it and then re-load the master. But while there is a method to point the Moneydance file at a new location I couldn't find an API to force Moneydance to save to the new location nor could I find an API to make Moneydance re-load from the old location. Any ideas there?
>
>        Thanks,
>
>                Yaron
>
> from com.moneydance.apps.md.model import Account
>
> # Thanks to http://help.infinitekind.com/discussions/financial-institution-direct-connection-support-requests/382-vanguard-download-http-error400 for this function
> def deleteAllOnlineInfo(root):
>  onlineInfo = root.getOnlineInfo()
>  while onlineInfo.getServiceCount()>0:
>    onlineInfo.removeService(0)
>
> def cleanAccount(acct):
>  acct.setOFXAccountKey("0")
>  acct.setOFXAccountNumber("0")
>  acct.setOFXAccountType("0")
>  acct.setOFXBankID("0")
>  acct.setOFXBranchID("0")
>  acct.setOFXBrokerID("0")
>
> def cleanBankAccount(acct):
>  acct.setBankAccountNumber("0")
>
> def cleanCreditCard(acct):
>  acct.setAnnualFee(0)
>  acct.setAPRPercent(0)
>  acct.setCardExpirationMonth(1)
>  acct.setCardExpirationYear(2000)
>  acct.setCardNumber("0")
>  acct.setCreditLimit(0)
>  acct.setOFXAccountNumber("0")
>
> def cleanInvestment(acct):
>  acct.setInvestAccountNumber("0")
>  acct.setOFXBrokerID("0")
>
> def cleanSecurity(acct):
>  acct.setBrokerPhone("0")
>
> def doNothing(acct):
>    pass
>
> def cleanAllAccounts(root):
>  for id in range(root.getHighestAccountNum() + 1):
>    acct = root.getAccountById(id)
>    if (acct != None):
>      cleanAccount(acct)
>      pass # Moneydance Jython won't seem to let me define a dictionary on multiple lines
>      { Account.ACCOUNT_TYPE_BANK : cleanBankAccount, Account.ACCOUNT_TYPE_CREDIT_CARD : cleanCreditCard, Account.ACCOUNT_TYPE_INVESTMENT : cleanInvestment, Account.ACCOUNT_TYPE_SECURITY : cleanSecurity}.get(acct.getAccountType(),doNothing)(acct)
>
> def deleteReminders(root):
>  reminderSet = root.getReminderSet()
>  reminderCount = reminderSet.getReminderCount()
>  if (reminderCount > 0):
>    for id in range(reminderSet.getReminderCount() + 1):
>      reminderSet.removeReminder(reminderSet.getReminder(id))
>
> def deleteAddresses(root):
>  addressBook = root.getAddressBook()
>  while addressBook.getSize() > 0:
>    addressBook.removeEntry(addressBook.getEntry(0))
>
> def cleanEntireFile(theFileToNeverRunThisProgramOn):
>  root = moneydance.getRootAccount()
>
>  if (root.getDataFile().getName() == theFileToNeverRunThisProgramOn):
>      print "You idiot! You tried to run this data destroyer on your primary file!!!!"
>      return
>
>  print "Starting to nuke things"
>  deleteAllOnlineInfo(root)
>  cleanAllAccounts(root)
>  deleteReminders(root)
>  deleteAddresses(root)
>  print "Nuking is complete, have a nice day"
>
> theFileToNeverRunThisProgramOn = "Moneydance.md"
> cleanEntireFile(theFileToNeverRunThisProgramOn)
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