Hi all,
maybe someone can help us implementing the following:
Me and my husband have a large shared collection of sheet music. I spent a lot of time putting meta data on the sheet music, so I have a nicely sorted MobileSheets library now.
Our goal is that my husband uses the same library (pdfs, meta data, audio), but is still be able to add his own annotations without seeing mine.
Our idea is that I regularly synchronize my library to a Drive folder which I share with my husband, who can import this folder without importing my notes. Then he backups his library (which is my pdfs + his annotations) to a different location. Is that feasible or has anyone a better long-term solution?
Another problem might be that he already added a lot of the sheet music I also have to his Mobile Sheets app, but with different pdf names. How can he keep his annotations? Is there maybe a way to "copy" his annotations manually to the newly imported, sorted sheet music?
Thanks y'all!
Edit:
I did some more tests. Sharing a Google Drive folder doesn't work because MobileSheets only has access to "normal" Drive files, not shared ones. Alternatively, I could export my whole library as .msb file and give it to my husband regularly.
I tried that on a test data set but couldn't figure out so far how to tackle annotations. I am willing to move all of his annotations manually in the beginning (those are around 50 songs) but afterwards, library updates should be automatic. No matter what I tried, I always ended up having his annotations deleted or not editable anymore.
Edit 2:
The best way I found so far is as follows:
1) My husband exports the file wih annotations
2) He imports my .msb file containing the same song with nice meta data / audio
3) He goes into the songs settings, chooses "swap files" and chooses his annotated file
This solves ALMOST everything. Sadly, his annotations are then not editable anymore (and if the setting "allow editing of embedded PDF annotations" is checked, the whole page gets a grey-ish tint and behaves weirdly)
maybe someone can help us implementing the following:
Me and my husband have a large shared collection of sheet music. I spent a lot of time putting meta data on the sheet music, so I have a nicely sorted MobileSheets library now.
Our goal is that my husband uses the same library (pdfs, meta data, audio), but is still be able to add his own annotations without seeing mine.
Our idea is that I regularly synchronize my library to a Drive folder which I share with my husband, who can import this folder without importing my notes. Then he backups his library (which is my pdfs + his annotations) to a different location. Is that feasible or has anyone a better long-term solution?
Another problem might be that he already added a lot of the sheet music I also have to his Mobile Sheets app, but with different pdf names. How can he keep his annotations? Is there maybe a way to "copy" his annotations manually to the newly imported, sorted sheet music?
Thanks y'all!
Edit:
I did some more tests. Sharing a Google Drive folder doesn't work because MobileSheets only has access to "normal" Drive files, not shared ones. Alternatively, I could export my whole library as .msb file and give it to my husband regularly.
I tried that on a test data set but couldn't figure out so far how to tackle annotations. I am willing to move all of his annotations manually in the beginning (those are around 50 songs) but afterwards, library updates should be automatic. No matter what I tried, I always ended up having his annotations deleted or not editable anymore.
Edit 2:
The best way I found so far is as follows:
1) My husband exports the file wih annotations
2) He imports my .msb file containing the same song with nice meta data / audio
3) He goes into the songs settings, chooses "swap files" and chooses his annotated file
This solves ALMOST everything. Sadly, his annotations are then not editable anymore (and if the setting "allow editing of embedded PDF annotations" is checked, the whole page gets a grey-ish tint and behaves weirdly)