What's the best way to sync sessions between my iMac and MacBook?
Hi I've just got a MacBook and exploring ways to sync files between laptop and desktop iMac.
Ideally I'd like to keep the files in the cloud and keep laptop drive clear and backup on external.
Any ideas for workflow? Dropbox or Google Drive etc?
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I'd probably buy a good adequately sized external SSD and work off that rather than pulling files from the cloud. That drive could then be used to sync between your two computers and of course backup the SSD to another drive (mechanical if you like) or perhaps the cloud.
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I do this all the time between a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro. I use ChronoSync to synchronize the folders I want between the two machines. However, because the MBP storage isn't upgradable, I keep my images on an external volume and synchronize that volume to a dedicated image volume on the Mac Pro. In your case, since the iMac shares the internal storage issue with the MBP, I'd suggest getting a fast external drive for image storage on the iMac and synchronize that to the external drive on the MBP. That solves 2 problems: synchronizing among the Macs and having a reasonably current backup of your images.
In practice, though, in addition to synching among the 2 machines, I have dedicated image backup devices that I regularly backup my main images drive to. Thus I always have 3 current copies of my important image files and C1 catalog.
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My approach is very simple but works well for me.
I keep all of my images and C! catalog and sessions on an external 1 TB SSD. Then, when I want to work on either machine, I simply plug in the external before launching C1 and go to work. If I happen to forget to plugin the external drive, C1 will remind me.
Twice per week I backup the primary C1 SSD to another identical SSD. In the event of failure, switching to the backup SSD would be totally painless.
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