Best practices for file management

Mandy,

I haven't looked at what Judy has done. She is a great resource and has a lot of good information. However, I have been told by Articulate that storing files on a shared database can corrupt the files. I have experienced this in the past. This was a few years ago, so maybe it is no longer a concern. What I do know is we do the same thing. I always download a copy. Make a copy, then work from the copy. Make my changes and version it. It adds to the storage issue, but we haven't had any issues yet.  AS for PDF files associated with the files, normally I create and attach new with the new version. We also store PDF files in the same folder as the story file so it can be used, and we don't have to worry about losing it.

Good luck, I hope this helps.