Synchronize Local between computers?

[Virginie]

Hi,

I’m wondering if this issue has been figured out. I have seen one or two topics about it but they are from 2021 at the latest.
Is there an easy way to have Local websites synchronized on two different computers, if the files/folder are stored in an iCloud folder on my iMac for example? Should I be able to open it and keep editing it on my laptop as well?

Virginie

[Nick-B]

Hi @Virginie

This has come up more recently for an example in another feature request created here:

Improve Backup plugin and Local to seamlessly sync up and down projects

As discussed here, the Backup plugin and Local currently only do a lacklustre job if you intend to effectively work on one site on two or more different computers, as the website advertises. State of things: Currently, the Backup add-on lets you back up your site on one machine, then you have to create a new site from the backup on your second machine, which doesn’t integrate with the backup branch of machine A, but creates a new stream for machine B. Same if you switch back to machine A, as ba…

Currently, there isn’t a simple way to go about it. It would involve a more manual migration of the site between the machines to a Cloud storage or something to that effect. Or if you were using a hosting option you could push up to the host and then pull down to the other machine and vice versa.