Sharing the Same DAW Project Files Between Two Macs; Cloud Storage?

Aron Stokes

Hello. I own a m1 Mac mini and a MacBook Pro and I'm wondering if there is a way for me to share the same DAW Project files between the two computers? I'm mainly wanting this because when I travel I'd like to be able to access the same files and folders on my MacBook Pro that I typically would at home on my desktop Mac mini setup. I typically just run the DAW Project folders/files from an external drive at home, but I have another external drive for travel and I tend to copy only currently needed projects to this one from my home external drive. This external hard drive relationship is fine, but I've wondered if it would be more effective to have some sort of cloud storage set up with the projects from the home external drive on it, so that I can easily access the files and pick up from where I left off whether I'm at home on my Mac mini or traveling with my MacBook Pro. This would help me avoid having to copy updated files back to one external drive or the other. Would working from some sort of online storage be advised or possible, or should I stick to the external hard drive system?

JesterMgee

Well you could setup something like Dropbox/Google Drive and share things via that however i've seen people have issues when using a project direct from a cloud sync folder and many developers recommend NOT to do this because sometimes you can have issues with file locking etc when doing saves or with auto-saves when the cloud service tries to sync the files.

Typically how I do things like this (and this is again one of those things that is just easier to do on PC over mac) is instead of having a shared file I have a sync script that simply copies between computers and is set to mirrir the files but only copy the one with the newer modify date so if I sync something to my laptop and it is then edited, when I sync again the file from the laptop is copied back again. I then also have all this mirrored to a server which is then again, mirrored to a cloud backup.

This allow a local file on multiple machines but all synched.

JesterMgee

Well you could setup something like Dropbox/Google Drive and share things via that however i've seen people have issues when using a project direct from a cloud sync folder and many developers recommend NOT to do this because sometimes you can have issues with file locking etc when doing saves or with auto-saves when the cloud service tries to sync the files.

Typically how I do things like this (and this is again one of those things that is just easier to do on PC over mac) is instead of having a shared file I have a sync script that simply copies between computers and is set to mirrir the files but only copy the one with the newer modify date so if I sync something to my laptop and it is then edited, when I sync again the file from the laptop is copied back again. I then also have all this mirrored to a server which is then again, mirrored to a cloud backup.

This allow a local file on multiple machines but all synched.

Aron Stokes

Ah, okay. I had a feeling Dropbox/Google Drive could have some issues. I'm considering going with a Synology NAS drive.

zenluiz

That is exactly what Splice Studio is for.

https://splice.com/features/studio