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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1154089" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>Your assumption with FTP is correct. The owness is on you to manage versioning. Again it depends what and how much your doing to decide if this is the way forward.</p><p>Once the FTP share is mounted in Finder you can effectively edit 'in-place', however if you lose your connection mid save you can find yourself in all sorts of problems with trying to recover your work.</p><p></p><p>Without sounding like a broken record, the 'best' solution can only be determined by a) your preference, b)what you are actually trying to achieve and c)knowing a bit more about the size and types of files you need to access/edit</p><p></p><p>If you're talking about editing big files 20mb+ (he says plucking a figure from the air) then the remote desktop solution/FTP/remote access to a NAS drive is the way to go.</p><p></p><p>If you're talking about Excel files, even hefty, spreadsheets, I'd definitely consider the DropBox route. You can set up DropBox to look at a location on your external hard disk.</p><p>That way you can edit a file anywhere. Even if you're offline, once you're back online the file is mirrored back to the iMac. Plus you have on online copy as a redundant backup.</p><p></p><p>Edit:</p><p>another option, not sure how feasible it is, is to take the external with you. Or get a 2.5" external and some sync/mirror software that will merge any changes back when you return to your iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1154089, member: 38928"] Your assumption with FTP is correct. The owness is on you to manage versioning. Again it depends what and how much your doing to decide if this is the way forward. Once the FTP share is mounted in Finder you can effectively edit 'in-place', however if you lose your connection mid save you can find yourself in all sorts of problems with trying to recover your work. Without sounding like a broken record, the 'best' solution can only be determined by a) your preference, b)what you are actually trying to achieve and c)knowing a bit more about the size and types of files you need to access/edit If you're talking about editing big files 20mb+ (he says plucking a figure from the air) then the remote desktop solution/FTP/remote access to a NAS drive is the way to go. If you're talking about Excel files, even hefty, spreadsheets, I'd definitely consider the DropBox route. You can set up DropBox to look at a location on your external hard disk. That way you can edit a file anywhere. Even if you're offline, once you're back online the file is mirrored back to the iMac. Plus you have on online copy as a redundant backup. Edit: another option, not sure how feasible it is, is to take the external with you. Or get a 2.5" external and some sync/mirror software that will merge any changes back when you return to your iMac. [/QUOTE]
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