bd2smith27 Posted February 2 Posted February 2 I have affinity designer installed on a desktop and a laptop, Is there a way to save a file on one computer and continue it on the other without using a third party like dropbox or icloud services? Is there a way to link the two together somehow when saving files? Quote
GarryP Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Welcome to the forums @bd2smith27 You could create your own NAS (Network Attached Storage) but I wouldn’t recommend it because the Affinity applications haven’t been proven to work well with such things. Unless anyone else has a better idea, one that the Affinity applications have been proven to work well with, I’d say the answer is no. Quote
mopperle Posted February 3 Posted February 3 As Garry said, this works AFAIK only in a network environment. The ways you can "share" files also depends a bit on your OS, Windows only or mixed Win/Mac/Linux. This site explains various ways to share files locally: https://www.xda-developers.com/ways-share-files-locally-windows-11/ But anyway, whatever you do, it is not recommended to work on a shared network storage. Always safe the file locally to your computer and send it back to the share, when your work is done. For things like that, I use LocalSend: https://localsend.org/ Quote Regards, Otto Affinity Suite v2.5.x - Windows 11 Pro
Komatös Posted February 3 Posted February 3 The Affinity programmes do not allow several people to edit the same file(s) at the same time. @GarryP @mopperle If the (home) network is configured correctly, there should be no loss of data. But yes, cloud services or their auxiliary applications can damage files under unfavourable circumstances when writing to the cloud. Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.3194) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.”
GarryP Posted February 3 Posted February 3 17 minutes ago, Komatös said: If the (home) network is configured correctly, there should be no loss of data. I’m wondering how many files will be lost and how much experimentation by the user with configuration settings would be needed until they just happen to hit upon the correct configuration. I can understand that there’s a ‘use at your own risk’ caveat when using things like this but I don’t think many users will have much network admin/configuration experience and they will probably just trust that it’s set-up right by default, which might or might not cause problems, and any problems (by default, in this context) become an ‘Affinity error’. Because of that, I would personally not currently recommend using a NAS with the Affinity applications. Quote
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