Editing from a second location

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I've been building a site in VSD on my work computer and have saved the files to my hard drive.
I have emailed the .vnu file to my home computer where I also have VSD installed.
Will this be successful?
Will photos and formatting be the same, or would the original photos have to be present on my home computer?
I know...I could just wait to get home to find out, but I want to know if I am "spinning my wheels" by doing this.
Thanks!
Our personal site www.grandbanks42.com
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you will need the same images and whatever else on the other comp.
Also there is a new version of Visual Site designer available.
You could use coffeecup's free zip to zip the files and folders then email them to yourself.
UPDATE: you know another option is to send the vnu as you did, then just download the files you have online to a folder which would save you zipping and emailing. just another option......




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What might be ideal is to create and save projects to a flash drive, which you can bring with you to work or home. That way, you'd only need one copy of the project vs trying to keep everything in sync. Just a thought.
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Hi,

I have had the same problem and have been searching for a solution for several weeks with the help of the people working at our CoffeeCup.
I think the final result is that what is quoted below.

"Hello Henny,

The problem is not only that the images are on both computers, but that you are moving the project from one computer to another. You will need to keep the project on one computer, or you will receive that error. This is because the images have different file path locations on either computer. If you want to switch the same project from one computer to the other there is only solution that we have found that works so far. That would be to have an external hard drive, or usb drive with enough space to handle the amount of images/files for your website, rename the drive to an unordinary name such as drive R:, then place all of your files in a folder on that drive. This is so that it will not be able to change the file path when you move from one system to another.

Thank you,


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Orlando Perez
CoffeeCup Software Inc.
An Internet 500 Company
http://www.coffeecup.com
Phone: 866-734-HTML (4865)"

I thought you might be interested.

Henny

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