Árni,

We have been working very successfully with the same combination.  In fact, 
most of the PC users were using ESRI software with the Macs using only QGIS 
(obviously?).  We use a directory structure based on the Grass style and shared 
(across continents) using Dropbox.  Most are using the business version of 
Dropbox for better control on read/write access.

A simplesolution for us has been to use two qgs files if needed for the same 
data files (or the ESRI equivalent).  The problem has then been limited to 
sharing formatting and the data sharing has been quite seamless.

I like the PostGIS idea and I’m moving to that more as well, but I’m not sure 
how much more that solves regarding sharing versus the simpler method explained 
above.

John Harrop

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Árni Geirsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I am adding a Mac to a local network of PCs. The Mac user uses QGIS (as well 
> as the PCs) and accesses data on a shared drive. Now the problem comes up 
> that data sources have different paths to the shared drive in each operating 
> system, making cooperation difficult. On the other hand, since the .qgs file 
> is easy to edit, some simple solution might map the paths automatically on 
> open and back on save, to compensate for these differences. And maybe there 
> is some other solution out there. 
> I realize that having all shared data in PostGIS might be one way to solve 
> this but I suspect that it might be both slower and a little more cumbersome.
> All thoughts and suggestions are highly appreciated.
> 
> Árni Geirsson
> 
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