About the project folder

When you’re sharing a project, you have to decide whether the project folder for it should be located on your local hard disk, or – if you’re sharing the project over a LAN and have access to a common file server – if it should be located on the server.

You should consider the following:

• If the project folder is located on your hard disk, the files it contains will be copied to the other users’ hard disks, and their project folders.

  This way, work on the files will be done locally on the computer of each user, and the updated files are then copied to the hard disks of the other users.

• If you have access to a file server and place the project folder and its contents on it, the other users can specify this folder as the project folder when they join the project.

  In this case, the project files will not be copied to the other users’ hard disks, but are instead accessed directly on the server. Working on the files directly on a server may be slower compared to working on them locally. On the other hand, the files will not have to be copied to each hard disk every time they are updated.