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Does that make sense It seems like there is a lot of confusion about that in the community groups and with customer service reps as well.

Does the program on the first computer need to be closed in order to access and use it on the second one or can they both be open at the same time.

Also, keep in mind your company file would need to reside on a server or some computer that BOTH your machines have access to.

That being said, IF you put your company file on a NAS, or a server and both machines can access it then this might work.

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The other option is to use remote software like RealVNC or Teamviewer or something similar to remote control the main computer from computer 2.

According to the manual, QB for Mac 2019 can be used by one user on two computers.

My file is stored on iCloud, so I should be able to access it from my second computer.

However, any modification made will not be saved or shown on both sides.

So are you saying that I can look at my file on the second computer but not do anything with it.

However, any changes made on the other computer will not reflect on the other file.

We dont recommend editing the same company file on different computers for it may result in some data issues.

I was about to purchase the 2019 for Mac for this specific reason.

It is a larger laptop, and I would like to be able to travel with my smaller laptop.

I was hoping to do so and then access Quickbooks from the smaller laptop when traveling - - making changes and creating purchase orders and invoices, just like I would from the laptop in my office.

It sounded as though anything I did in Quickbooks would be saved on the cloud platform.

When getting back into the laptop in the office, all I would need to do is make sure I open the file from the cloud and all the changes additions I made when traveling would show up.

Thus using two computers, one user, to access one quickbooks file.

Did I read this wrong when reviewing this on the Quickbooks site.

Id be delighted to point you in the right direction about accessing your QuickBooks file on another laptop.

For more information about opening your file on different a computer, follow the steps in this article and proceed directly to the To share your company file section of page 24.

You mention being able to access the company file from another computer.

I am hoping to not only access and see the information from another computer, but to be able to do work in the system and then the changes or additions to be made to the iCloud file.

Thus when opening quickbooks again when I am back in my home office, it would have the changes I made from the other computer.

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