jpkna Posted October 29, 2024 Share Posted October 29, 2024 We are dipping our toes into project sharing and I came across this web page: Link. On the whole it is as I expected, except for one thing: "It's important to save your working file on your local desktop and avoid saving it on a server or in the cloud." Can anyone clarify if this is important and if so, why is it? Quote Link to comment
BartH Posted October 29, 2024 Share Posted October 29, 2024 I am sure there is a more technical reason, but my thoughts are. If the internet/network goes out, I can keep working on my local working file until I can sync again. If the server gets corrupted. I have a local copy I can convert my working file to a regular VWX file and then back into project to get back going again. Basically, 2 files in 2 places are safer than 2 files in the same place. All of this assumes you have a robust backup system on your local machine. Quote Link to comment
scottmoore Posted November 9, 2024 Share Posted November 9, 2024 I believe it is suggested to not only save the working file in a different location, but ideally in a location that does not get backed up (such as Time Machine, Dropbox, Gdrive, etc). Unless you are doing a lot of project file work that you are not saving back to the project file, there really is no reason to have backups of your working file; you can always create a new one. The reason, as I understand it is that occasionally your working file will get backed up in a background process and confuse the project file into recognizing two of your working files. The result is the frustrating issue of not being able to work on a file because the other ghost “you” has items checked out. When that has happened, I save the project file as a standard VWX file and then convert it back to a new project file. Very annoying. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted November 10, 2024 Share Posted November 10, 2024 I've found that it is important to have your working file on your local drive and not sync w/ dropbox. We tried it and it caused problems. My understanding is that the syncing methodology can cause … bad things. It certainly caused object permissions to get messed up. I think @scottmoore is describing the same issue. But if you are running your own server it might be different. Quote Link to comment
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