I recently bought a macbook pro and transferred my freeway stuff using a usb drive to my laptop.
Somehow after several hours of trying to work out why it wouldn’t initially work, it came down to changing the Site Folder Location in Document Setup to make it work.
I freeway to look at my macbook pro HD rather than my desktop iMac.
My question is: is it really that easy? I read the manual and didn’t understand what to do as it was all a bit much, so I just started doing my own thing and made it work.
Does that mean I can’t work on my freeway website document on my desktop because I changed the file location to my laptop?
After 2 years of using freeway, I’m still a newbie, maybe just a senior newbie now.
If you are passing the Freeway file back and forth between your laptop and your desktop, then yes, you will have to re-point the Site Folder setting each time you make that switch. The Freeway document contains everything about your site – all the pages, all the text and layout on those pages, and references to all of the pictures and other media you have placed on your pages. Those references are relative – if you keep passing the entire project (the .freeway file, the Media folder, and the Site Folder) as one big thing back and forth, or if you use Dropbox or similar to keep the project synched between two Macs – then there should be no changes needed. But if you only move the .freeway file back and forth, you will have to re-point it to the Site Folder and any external files that are at a different relative location from the .freeway file.
Walter
On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Bugboots wrote:
Hi there,
I recently bought a macbook pro and transferred my freeway stuff using a usb drive to my laptop.
Somehow after several hours of trying to work out why it wouldn’t initially work, it came down to changing the Site Folder Location in Document Setup to make it work.
I freeway to look at my macbook pro HD rather than my desktop iMac.
My question is: is it really that easy? I read the manual and didn’t understand what to do as it was all a bit much, so I just started doing my own thing and made it work.
Does that mean I can’t work on my freeway website document on my desktop because I changed the file location to my laptop?
After 2 years of using freeway, I’m still a newbie, maybe just a senior newbie now.
When I need a project to be portable, I keep it in a folder on my MacBook
Pro. When I want to work on that project with my deskbound iMac, I restart
my laptop in Target Disk mode and hook it to the iMac with a firewire
cable. Target Disk Mode essentially treats the laptop as a big hard drive
that I can mount on my desktop unit. The Freeway Pro file never leaves the
laptop (which of course is backed up regularly to an external portable
drive).
I use Dropbox to store the Work In Progress websites in. This way all devices capable of connecting to Dropbox can access and show the website. I can even show the basics (no php etc) to the customer by sharing a public link.
Thank you Walter for giving me the answer I was hoping for. I intend to keep everything on my laptop and back it up regularly.
I now have a greater understanding about this matter.
I don’t know where I’d be without this forum.
Your response is greatly appreciated.