RapidWeaver FAQ - Two computers
How do I edit one website from two computers?
To edit one website from two different computers you have to transfer the file where RapidWeaver stores its files. To find it search with Spotlight for “rwsw” (since the extension of the file is .rwsw). To know where it is located click the result while hitting Command(Apple).
To get the site showing up in RapidWeaver you just have to open the file by double clicking on it. Note that the location where the file is placed to doesn’t matter.
To transfer your .rwsw file from one Mac to the other you can put it on a USB-Stick, on a CD/DVD or if you can do that by establishing a network and have the two computers communicating to each other. If you use MobileMe you can put it on your iDisk but the MobileMe servers are slow so it’s not a good idea if you have a huge .rwsw file. Another not a great idea if you have a large file is to send it by e-mail.
If you edited your website on computer A and want to edit it on computer B transfer the file from A to B as mentioned before. If you now want to edit your site on computer A, after you edited it on computer B, you will have to retransfer the file from B to A.
Caution: Make sure not to overwrite the newer with the older file!
BEST SOLUTION:
If you put the .rwsw file on a USB-Stick (USB flash drive) all you have to do is plug the usb stick in one of the computers and double click the file on the USB flash drive (without moving it to the computer!). It will open in RapidWeaver and save changes to the USB stick, plug it into the second computer and same thing. You could publish a site from both the computers without missing data and without fearing of overwriting the older with the newer file.
NOTE 1: Note that you have to change permissions of the file to be able to edit, save changes and publish a website from another user account and from another computer as well.
Select the file press Command(Apple)+i under Ownership & Permissions go to =>Details =>Everyone (or Others) and select Read & Write
You have to do that in the original user account and computer in which the file was created.
If your computer goes nuts and you didn’t change permissions you could find an error while publishing and saving.
You better make a backup of the file mentioned above from time to time, how do I make a backup?
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