Orbis in the Cloud on a Mac

Although in all other contexts, Macs do not use drive designations, they do use these in Orbis, so that Orbis can accurately find the thousands (even millions) of files it can search. If using a Mac, and creating a textbase by selecting files, or if adding and/or removing files, you will be shown the following locations:

C:\ the Wine program drive (no user files are ever found here)

S:\ The shortcut/shared name/alias that points to the Nota Bene home folder shared in the cloud. Note that this is normally S:, but it can be some other letter, depending on how you set up your system (see Nota Bene in the Cloud)

Y:\ Your user folder on your Mac (e.g., User\JaneJones)

Y:\ is a shortcut to a specific folder on your main Mac hard drive, namely your user folder (for example, Y:\ = Z:\users\JaneJones\)

In almost all cases, the actual location of the of the local version of the folder synced by cloud software can be found under your user folder:

•	For Dropbox, often a folder of that name (e.g., Y:\Dropbox [or Z:\users\YOU\Dropbox])

•	For iCloud, normally \Library\Mobile Documents\com~apple~CloudDocs Note that “Library” is often a hidden folder (see your Mac documentation for how to display hidden folders)

From the notes above, you might see that you can access the same file in different ways. For example (if running Dropbox, for example):

•	Z:\users\YOU\Dropbox\Nota Bene\Documents\MyFile.NB

•	Y:\Dropbox\Nota Bene\Documents\MyFile.NB (Y:\ = Z:\users\YOU\)

•	S:\Documents\MyFile.NB (S: = ..\Dropbox\Nota Bene)

If you want to share a textbase across multiple machines, ALL files that you select must be:

•	In a shared location (accessible to all machines that want to access that textbase)

•	Selected (during textbase creation) using the shared name (S:\ above), NOT the Y:\ or Z:\ location

This last point is important, and deserves emphasis: in order for Orbis to find the files that you want to search, you need to select them using the alias that is common to all computers from which you want to access that textbase. For example, the following may all refer to the same location:

C:\USERS\JANE\DROPBOX\NOTA BENE\DOCUMENTS (computer #1, running Windows)

Z:\USERS\JANEJONES\DROPBOX\NOTA BENE\DOCUMENTS (computer #2, a Mac)

But only if files are added using the S: location will they be accessible from all computers using that alias drive name.