Run site from an external or network drive?

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I’m trying to keep a site in sync between two computers (iMac and MacBook Pro), so I’m wanting to use the network drive created by using Google File Stream.

I referenced Using Symlinks with local and Sites on external drive – error installing WordPress

Here are my screenshots: https://cl.ly/2f3d1P2W0n2b, https://cl.ly/20473p3F222u

I then went to Preferences » Advanced and disabled then re-enabled “Faster Docker Volumes” and now see this: https://cl.ly/3A3W2V3P0Q1b

Please advise. tyvm!

P.S. Once working on this computer, how can I “import”/inherit it on the other computer (i.e. from existing files)?

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Update: when I went to stop the site, I got this error:

Uh-oh! Local ran into an issue while backing up tribe’s database to the site’s “app/sql” directory.
Please check the local-by-flywheel.log file for more details.

Here’s my log file containing all of today’s records: 2018-02-14-local-by-flywheel

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That looks like it’s a mount/volume error.

Please try going to Help » Restart Local’s Machine to reinitiate the VM and mounts.

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Sorry I know there are multiple moving pieces here.

I did what you suggested but symlinks still don’t work. Was it supposed to fix that or make it possible to run this on a network-mounted drive?

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Symlinks won’t work with Local. It’s simply a VirtualBox limitation.

The volumes add-on will allow you to map specific directories in the Local site’s container to your network drive.

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Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

If I get this working on Mac1, how do I “import”/inherit this site on Mac2 so the files and such stay in sync?

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@clay could you please explain/demonstrate exactly what I need to do to have my files (also my database?) on my network drive?

I saw this comment from Using Symlinks with local - #4 by jeffcleverley - Support - Local Community

But then I didn’t know which things to do here: Image 2018-02-15 at 10.30.4...

And he mentioned symlink, but you said that doesn’t work.

Thanks for the help.

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@clay just checking back.

I moved all my files from /Users/cmp/Local Sites/tribe/app/public to /Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/_everything/cmp/Local Sites/tribe

Then I mapped this as best I could guess: https://cl.ly/1w3X3g342629

But then my domain just loaded nothingness (apache file directory, which was blank)

Please assist. Thank you.

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@cliff,

That looks good!

Can you provide more details on this? Does it never load or does it load with a white screen?

Also, can you provide the log files in the site’s /logs directory?

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Here’s a video of me replicating the issue just now: https://cl.ly/1C1C1x0D3X2v
And here’s my log file from yesterday and today (collected after doing that video): https://cl.ly/0c470u0e3u3R

Additionally, once I get it working, can I run the database on remote or is it only advisable/okay to put the files there?

Thank you so much.

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I tried Dropbox instead and it gives 403 Forbidden.

I pointed /Users/cmp/Local Sites/tribe/app
to /Users/cmp/Dropbox/local-sites/tribe/app

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access / on this server.