A subject that has come up from time to time is how best to share RW projects, zipping them up when storing in the cloud etc. Whilst certainly do-able there has always been a degree of nervousness about it.
So question is: will sharing Elements projects be the same or maybe a bit easier?
As the document is a package (like many other docs on macOS), it’ll be much the same as Classic. If you’re syncing between Macs using iCloud you should be just fine!
Just dont use Dropbox they have a warning out that says dont use packages they have a high probability of getting corrupted. I use iCloud and all is fine knock on wood for the last few years.
I don’t think @manofdogz is asking about syncing. I think he is asking about sending an Elements document to a third party that also has Elements. It the Elements document portable between users like say a word processing document?
It appears as though all resources are embedded in the document package, so it shouldn’t be a problem to share it like a Word doc, as I’ve been downloading and working with others shared .elements files just fine.
I would zip it first is all just so it transfers faster
Thanks for the replies all. Really would just like to have someone else on board who can easily access / support client projects - hence just thinking of keeping everything on a shared cloud server so either of us can update a project at any time.
I hope that I am wrong here, but I don’t think that Elements is set up for multi-user access to projects. Yes, you can do something like store the file on iCloud and share it with another person–I think. But you would have to work out who is accessing at certain times. It would be very cool if it was multi-user, but I don’t think that is Elements target demographic. Again, it would be nice to be wrong here!
That’s what I suspect also. Obviously there are workarounds but it’s just a little fiddly sometimes!
In that case this is what I do with a couple of people I work with. As I own my own servers I have an FTP folder for this where we keep the project files. We Skype or whats app group (Communication is key here). If I am working on a file the other users dont do any updates until I am done and posted the updated file back to the FTP Server. It works for me anyways. Just keep it simple.