I will be updating my site primarily from my home desktop but will also be needing to access it via a notebook now and then. It appears that VSD only updates the files on the host computer via the *.vnu file. Without access to this VNU file at the 2nd computer things can get crazy trying to update it seems.

I may be missing something since I'm very new to this program.

Wondering if VSD will work with "Web Folders" whereas I make a folder on my site server to hold all the updated VSD files to be access by each computer when needed.

Since I don't use webfolders, I can't address that portion of your question. However, a couple of alternatives come to mind:

1) ftp --- you could manually store the .vnu file on your server and then download it to open up in your laptop for editing. This would require you to make sure that, each time you update your site, you upload the latest .vnu to the server.

2) sneakernet -- write your .vnu project file on a USB drive and plug it into either computer when you want to edit the site. Save your changes back to the USB drive so that there's no 'version confusion' between the two machines.

Please note that my suggestions are only theoretical -- I haven't actually tried them, but it would seem that either would work unless CoffeeCup has written in something into VSD that would prohibit that functionality.

When you upload your site using the built-in ftp client in vsd it also uploads the vnu file. You just need a stand-alone ftp client and go to the server and fetch it. It's sitting in the 'backup' folder.

What you also need to have is the exact same file/folder structure on your laptop, or else vsd won't find the various bits and pieces.

The solution #2 above is also a good one.

It's sitting in the 'backup' folder.

That's true, but the filename in the backup folder has the upload date & time inserted into it.

My original file is named: vsdtest.vnu
This becomes: vsdtest-v6.[Sunday, March 14, 2010 08;19;04].vnu

You can download and open this file in VSD if you want, but you will begin to clutter your drive with different versions of your site. If I were doing it, I'd download the file, and then rename it, removing the date & time information so that the name was the same as my original filename.

Well here's another really easy way around this. If you're going to take the time to install another FTP client to "download" the .vnu file (which cb has informed us has a different name), why not "upload" the correctly named one to that same location so it's in that same backup file (this way you know exactly where it is to download it to the other computer) and then you've got it. Of course it won't upload this same file so you'll need to make sure you do this each time you have finished editing on the particular computer and reupload the .vnu file again for the other computer to download.

The main thing here would be to make absolutely sure you download the current .vnu file so you don't accidently work on the one on the 1st computer and overwrite the changes the 2nd computer uploaded yesterday. There may be a better way for keeping in sync with this that I'm unaware of since I don't use VSD. I have heard people talking about syncing in VSD so maybe it's built in already where it will download the current setup? Dunno.

If it doesn't have automatic syncing capabilities, another really easy way to handle this is just download the .vnu file that is in there and rename it to the same name you're using on your computer (basically taking off the date and time stamp stuff and duplicating the name of the real .vnu file). This would eliminate the need for uploading the current one when you're done editing each time as the program already does do that for you.

I am still thinking there is probably a built in way to sync between your computer and the uploaded version, but I could be wrong here, hopefully someone else will have that answer.