On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Profile <[email protected]> wrote: > I read Marta's reply and she is right. You would greatly simplify your life > with just a few minor changes. It really isn't that hard and then life > becomes so much easier. I do exactly as Marta. I will save files on my > laptop at work to my desktop at home by dropping the file into the Alias of > all the folder I have on the desktop at home. That way the laptop is not > bulging with duplications of the work that I really only want to store in one > place. > > If I need a file it is only a few clicks away be my location at work, in a > Hotel in Denver, in a coffee shop in Washington, or in the next room.
Let me give a plug to another product that works like this but is more powerful, and yet is still free: DropBox. You sign up for a free account on Drop Box and then install the software on the computers you want to share files with. The software will create folders that act as conduits between your computers, kind of like the aliases that John was talking about. Any file you drop on the folder on your computer will automagically show up in the corresponding folder on any other machine that is using the same account. If you open it up and edit it, it will then update the copy on the other machine. If you delete it or move it out of the folder it will be removed from the other computers as well. The things I like about DropBox are: . You can share files with any computer, yours or others', on your network or across the world . You can also access the same files from the DropBox website when you are not at your computer . They have an iPhone app with similar capability I use it all the time to share files with clients and family members. Oh, did I mention it was free? j. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 & 10 Certified Developer ****NEW Ph no: 502-509-7137**** Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] Kentuckiana's Only FileMaker Users Group: Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://fmpug.com/blogs/louisville Next meeting 1/21/200 1:00 pm Info & RSVP: http://fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=981 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
