I don’t use resources much, but I have to for favicons and most navigation stacks logos.
Storing the projects on OneDrive (Microsoft) works fine, except for resources. If I save a project to OneDrive from my laptop and open it on my desktop I get the “missing link in resources” warning.
I relink them, or just add them back, work on project and save, then when I open it again on the laptop the links are broken again and I get the warning and have to relink them.
If I look in Resources the images are there, it’s just the links to the project seem broken.
Re OneDrive and Dropbox and resources:
You store a file in a folder, usually a folder within a folder within a folder etc and that’s the way you think MacOS sees its file system … it doesn’t.
In MacOS each file has a unique id, it’s location (folder/folder/folder) is irrelevant, you can test this by making an alias to a file on your desktop and then move the original file … the alias will still work even though the file is in a completely different folder location, folders are only there to help us meat sacks have some sort of visual organisation/hierarchy.
Each Mac will create its own unique Id’s for all of its files.
It used to be that RW stored its resources location using the folder/folder path but when it went appstore it changed to using the unique id (probably an Apple requirement)
So …
When you create a file on mac1 it gets the unique id of 1234
it syncs via OD or DB and lands on mac2
mac2 sees the new file and assigns it A NEW UNIQUE ID of 6543 as it’s a new file (to it, mac2)
Hey presto resources are now broken as the imadumass.jpg that had the id of 1234 on mac1 has the id of 6543 on mac2 and RW can no longer find the portrait of Steve that it has stored with the id of 1234 EVEN THOUGH THE MEAT SACK FOLDER PATH IS THE SAME.
Hence the ‘store resources in project’ option they included in recent versions
It shouldn’t happen with resources in a proj as they are no longer independent files (like a zip file) so I’ve no idea on that front.
I’ve barely done any web stuff since I started my new job, I’ve been there 7 months and I’m on project 47! I have neither energy nor creativity left over at the end of the day :)
