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Esa

Member

Working with several machines?

Hello.

I have several sites to upgrade and thousands of images to handle. Now I would like to work with these sites being away from my home computer. Do I need to have all these images in my laptop althought I have published the site from an other computer and if I do, I suppose they should be exactly behind the same path?
Now I have sandbox in my Applications folder and all my images in Image/projects/sandvox/site1 folder as an example.
Do I need to sync the machines when I add images?

Esa

JimK

Super Hero

Re: Working with several machines?

I can imagine a couple different ways to handle this.

1. iCloud or Dropbox---keep the documents and images in cloud storage. I have no idea how Sandvox performs when doing that.

2. You could look to Apple Remote Desktop or JollysFastVNC. I don't know what kind of experience it is to run remotely on the Mac (I do it all the time on PCs). Goggle for more information.

Jim

Heather

Administrator

Re: Working with several machines?

You would just need to install Sandvox on the second computer. Then you would copy your .sandvox document file from one computer to the other.
When you return you would move the file back.
You can save your site to a cloud storage like dropbox to make things easier.

Esa

Member

Re: Working with several machines?

Thank you for the answers and good to know it's that easy. Wonder how I managed to forget Dropbox.

LenG

Member

Re: Working with several machines?

Ummm....similar issue. How do you save to iCloud?

Heather

Administrator

Re: Working with several machines?

Yes, you can store your documents to any cloud storage that you would like.

LenG

Member

Re: Working with several machines?

Yes, you can store your documents to any cloud storage that you would like.

But how?

If I work on two computers how can I sync the file via iCloud?

macdafydd

Avenger

Re: Working with several machines?

See Heather's reply of 26 July, above.

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LenG

Member

Re: Working with several machines?

I have read ALL the messages above but I do not know any way to save a file to iCloud. Heather says you can do it but I know not how it can be done. Dropbox yes, iCloud I do not know how?
Perhaps someone knows how to.

JamesJM

Super Hero

Re: Working with several machines?

Go to iCloud online, in your browser, then choose iWorks, then the GEAR, and upload any document.  I'm not sure how that will work with Sandvox, however, not being an "iWorks" document… but it will load. - JamesJM

terrence

Administrator

Re: Working with several machines?

Sandvox does not yet store documents on iCloud. If iCloud had a file browser where you could copy files back and forth, much like (the now old) iDisk, it would work. iCloud doesn't provide that and so requires very special handing to save documents there. We are working on it, but I don't have a time frame yet.

Sandvox does work nicely with Dropbox, for example, as long as you make sure you only have the .sandvox document open on one machine at a time.

macdafydd

Avenger

Re: Working with several machines?

iCloud isn't meant to be used like Dropbox to store all sorts of files. Its document sharing feature is meant just for that: sharing documents that have common applications across devices, so things like Pages, Numbers and so on, that are available both under OS X and iOS.

MobileMe used to offer a service called iDisk that acted like DropBox, but this is not so with iCloud. You need DropBox or SugarSync or some other cloud server.

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It says "Avenger," but I am just a Sandvox user who has been assigned the title of Avenger here in order to be able to delete spam messages. http://davidneale.eu/