Questions about networked stored Projects?

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I’m not sure if this goes here or somewhere else, so I apologize if its in the wrong place or has been asked before.

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I am trying to learn unity and I currently run on multi platforms(Mac portable and Windows desktop). The desktop has a huge amount of storage therefore i’d ideally like to make it the main repository for my project, but i’d like to be able to work from the Mac laptop as well. Is there any issue/solution that anyone can think of as to why this wouldn’t work. I’m aware of the obvious local network storage issues and the laptop isn’t always at home, is there a better solution for this as well. I was thinking about maybe getting a large flash drive for storage, but then I’d run the risk of forgetting where it is, or losing it completely. Thanks for the help and I apologize if i’m missing something glaringly easy about this.

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What about cloud-based source control through bitbucket or the like?

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This a hundred times over.

There’s loads of options, most of them low cost, plenty of them free for small teams. I’ve gone on and on and on about the benefits of this many times in the past, but a few dot points:

  • Implicit off-site backup.
  • Most merging is automated. You usually only have to get involved if there are conflicts.
  • “Infinite undo”.
  • Documented project history. This assumes that you give useful commit messages, which you absolutely should be doing.