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bennorman98
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February 5, 2019
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Windows & Mac cross compatibility??

  • February 5, 2019
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Hi,

So this year I'm studying web design at college and I will be using dreamweaver in my classes. I was wondering if its possible to work on dreamweaver files on a windows computer at college then access the files on my Mac at home?

Thanks

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    Paul-M
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    February 5, 2019

    Hi,

    So this year I'm studying web design at college and I will be using dreamweaver in my classes. I was wondering if its possible to work on dreamweaver files on a windows computer at college then access the files on my Mac at home?

    Thanks

    Hi - Would be useful for you to learn the basics of GIT if you're moving between machines or if you prefer a simpler method, keep a copy of your site files in a dropbox folder or some other cloud storage like One Drive, Google Drive etc .... GIT would be your best option IMO, but if you never used it before there's a bit of a learning curve.

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    rayek.elfin
    rayek.elfin
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    February 5, 2019

    Energize​ You mean working with an online service like Github or Gitlab, correct? Because GIT by itself is local versioning, and won't help the OP here.

    GIT is not Github, and vice versa.

    bennorman98​ It is indeed a good idea to set up a Github account, and create an Github repository, load up your project files, which then become accessible on any machine with Git and/or a visual GIT client.

    However, if you are just beginning web development GIT and Github may be rather obscure to work with. An alternative is to load up your files to a file service like Dropbox to share project file between your school machine(s) and your home computer. It is crucial you learn to work with GIT versioning at some point, though.

    PS why is that college using Dreamweaver at this point in time? Sets off alarm bells.

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    Paul-M
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    February 5, 2019

    Energize You mean working with an online service like Github or Gitlab, correct? Because GIT by itself is local versioning, and won't help the OP here.

    Yes obviously, we use GITLAB here ... But as I mentioned there's a learning curve, however the curve wouldn't be as steep for a single person/user to learn as apposed to teams.

    Learn how to download and use Git with Dreamweaver CC.

    Paul-M - Community Expert
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    osgood_
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    February 5, 2019

    bennorman98  wrote

    Hi,

    So this year I'm studying web design at college and I will be using dreamweaver in my classes. I was wondering if its possible to work on dreamweaver files on a windows computer at college then access the files on my Mac at home?

    Thanks

    Yes of course. As long as you have the site-definition folder on both machines set up correctly for Dreamweaver to find it there will be no problems.

    The site definition process is set up at the outset of the project to allow Dreamweaver to keep track of were the files associated with your website are located on your machine/s, - so just go through the same process on both machines and once set up copy and store your website folder in the same location where the site definition points to, on each machine.

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