Access work across multiple devices

[alfiea]

Hello, 

I assume I can access work across several devices with Affinity, however, I am unable to find out how or where to set that up. I have a Mac and an iOS device and work on those at different times of the day. Can anyone help? Is it possible? Also, I apologise if it is listed somewhere, I have looked but I am unable to find it. 

 

thank you in advance. 

[Callum]

Hi Alfiea,

You would have to use a service such as iCloud to transfer the document between both of your devices.

Thanks
C

[alfiea]

Thank you so much for your reply.

 

Shame that through a customer account, work cannot be shared automatically between devices owned / registered. 

[Komatös]

@alfiea With an own home server (NAS) this would not be a problem.

There are practically no other options than either using an external cloud provider (iCloud, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, etc.) or building your own file server. The latter can be done with a single board computer like the RaspberryPi or similar and a USB stick or USB hard drive.
Another advantage is that the data does not have to be kept on two or more devices, but at a central point.

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, Komatös said:

With an own home server (NAS) this would not be a problem.

Have you tested that with the iPad version of the apps? IIRC, the iPadOS makes it all but impossible to directly work with files that are not stored on the iPad itself.

[alfiea]

thank you all for your replies.

 

Yes I have tried the iPad version. I guess the best way is to store it on the cloud and work back from there. that's easiest for me right now. 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Have you tested that with the iPad version of the apps? IIRC, the iPadOS makes it all but impossible to directly work with files that are not stored on the iPad itself.

Works fine with an iPad and a local network with Windows machines and NAS devices.

[walt.farrell]

16 minutes ago, alfiea said:

I guess the best way is to store it on the cloud and work back from there.

There can be issues working with files that are not on a local directory, so be prepared for that and make sure you keep backup versions of your files.

Also, for working with text, you need to have all the same fonts and versions of those fonts installed on all the machines (though, with Publisher, you can create a Package that includes the needed fonts, which will be installed automatically while you work on the file).

[thomaso]

15 hours ago, R C-R said:

IIRC, the iPadOS makes it all but impossible to directly work with files that are not stored on the iPad itself.

Isn't the question rather how to access files … before working with / storing them on a target device / an iPad ? (… while also Affinity doesn't like to work in files that aren't stored locally.)

In my understanding Apple always had easy File Sharing in mind (… apart from the fact that iOS / iPad always has been limited / never offered a "Finder" like macOS). So for the OP (" I have a Mac and an iOS device") AirDrop might be the choice when web-based file copies should be avoided.

• AirDrop  |  • iCloud  |  • NAS  |  • cable

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/ipad0a44dd20/

[alfiea]

Hello everyone, thank you all for your help. I have now shared files with emails through the cloud. that works for me, though I was hoping for an automatic type connection set up some way by affinity. I'm a novice so this way it's the easiest for me. thank you all again.