I have an office and house on my property. I finally have successfully networked the two buildings together so I’m thinking I should move my projects to my NAS so I can open them from either location. I have no concerns about copies being opened at both locations at the same time for numerous reasons, namely I always shut my computers down when I leave either building.
I just want my Mac Mini at the office and my MBP at home to pull from the same folder so I can work on the projects whenever I feel like it without having to worry if a sync has happened etc.
Simplistically, make a folders in your “home” folder on the NAS, use macOS “Finder” app to copy across using care and understanding the folder names thus created, reconfigure your applications to find the data they previously expected on your local drive to now be on the NAS.
You’ll likely get a performance hit as access the NAS across the network surely won’t be as performant as your local disk, so hopefully your apps can withstand that. Some don’t.
Me, I’d probably store the files on the NAS but sync with local and continue to run the apps off the local synced copies. Just my preference which I understand is opposite your preference.
What I ended up doing was opening all the projects in Scriv, did “Save As” and saved them to the new folder on the NAS. It’s a tiny bit slower, but negligible. I’m a frequent backup saver, plus the main book is currently in beta with Word docs and PDFs of everything saved as well I think I’ll be safe.
Just gotten tired of getting an idea at home and thinking, “I’ll have to add that in the morning!” Would rather strike while the iron is hot.