Sharing workspace across multiple computers - phpstorm

I am trying to use phpStorm on 2 computers to work on a project that is synchronized through dropbox. From what I read it looks like concurrent use of a personal license on multiple computers is supported as of 2015. However, when I save files on each computer, it changes workspace.xml in the .idea folder. This throws the following error when I go to work on the other computer.
"Project Files Changed
Project components were changed externally and cannot be reloaded:
ToolWindowManager
Would you like to reload project?"
How can I fix this problem so I don't have to reload phpStorm every time I save a file?

Use git instead of dropbox and commit your changes excluding .idea project files to a branch before you leave one computer.
You could also try to exclude the .idea project files from the dropbox sync folder via symlinks to not have them synced.

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Publish Intranet page is using another user's local publish path for the file being changed

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
When I publish an Intranet page update, I am getting an error that shows a user's local publish path for one of the files instead of using the web path. It isn't even MY local publish path..
When I publish to my local publish location, the file changed doesn't even publish/update locally.
When I run the project, it seems to work the first time (meaning no error), but when I perform that same task a subsequent time, this is when I get the Object reference error.
How can I fix the project/solution in order to hit the file/code I've changed?
We are using C#, ASP.NET core, Visual Studio 2019, on Windows 10.
I've tried cleaning and rebuilding, deleting upon build, restarting Visual Studio, restarting my system, get latest, undo checkout and start over.
Was replacing just the one aspx file I made code changes to.
Must replace the entire project of files after Publish, not just the select files you (think) you've worked on. Changes are made to files behind and beyond the targeted file(s).
Publish locally, backup Prod files, copy local files to Prod server, Voila!

PhpStorm - Autodownload certain folders

I've set up PhpStorm to auto-deploy changed files to the vagrant box.
However, I run the build scripts in the box, and I can't count the times I shipped some module without copying back (downloading) those compressed JavaScript files, out of vagrant, into my local working directory.
Is there a way to make PhpStorm monitor the deployment server, and download changed files?
Is there a way to make PhpStorm monitor the deployment server, and download changed files?
There is no auto-download.
The IDE is build around "local code first" idea where local is the source and any remote is just a copy.
If you need to download remote stuff I suggest to manually use Sync With Deployed action from Deployment menu: it allows to manually sync files and folders both ways: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/deploying-applications.html
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-1284 I guess (as it's about syncing remote to local)... Watch this ticket (star/vote/comment) to get notified on any progress.

Reconfigure each time - PhpStorrm

I am making all the settings of the PHPStorm software and when i reset, I set up FTP settings again every time and I can not see the last open files
For example, each time; Tools > Options > "Upload changed files automatically to the default server" .. I am setting this option every time.
I've never experienced this before.
What could be the reason for this?
Such problems may occur if the project is located on OneDrive; you can move .idea files to a local folder that is not part of OneDrive sync, keeping sources on OneDrive: create a new empty project in the preferred location on your local drive, and then link your source folder located on OneDrive to it by adding it as a content root in Settings | Directories, Add Content Root

Publishing NopCommerce

I have my site up and running, but because of number of changes, i decided to publish an updated version. Before doing so i have made backup of my files and databases on the host, just in case.
Now this is what i did: Publish Nop.Web used FTP, configuration is set to release and from file publish options checked Delete all existing files prior to publish, as i was publishing to the same folder wwwroot. After publish was completed NopCommerce installation appeared (btw i would like to use the same db i used before) even tho settings.txt from the project I was publishing had the correct string path. I tried 2-3 times to pass the installation with no success (error: One or more sequence... something like that), checked settings.txt on the host and it was empty (no idea why), but i just edited it with the string path.
Now installation is gone i have my site running again with all the products and user information (i assume that means string path to db is good), but my theme is reseted to default, like all my changes to it (footer links, background, logo, favicon..etc etc) only thing that stayed as it should was the nivo slider widget that has the correct pictures displaying on this 'reseted' theme.
Checked General settings for theme settings if its the correct theme selected.
Also i have noticed this, i assume with those 2-3 unsuccesful install tried i have made some changes in db
http://i.imgur.com/wfXQYj6.png
Any suggestions how to sort this whole thing, before publishing i was running my site locally and it was good, i have backups of db and files(ones that i used before this publish)
I am using Nop version 3.4 and arvixe hosting. Sorry for my long post but i wanted to describe my steps and error as detailed as possible.
Thanks for reading and looking forward for your suggestions about this.
I haven't tried publishing features of NopCommerce version > 3.10, but you can try a more "manual" approach to make sure that files are properly updated on the server.
In short, you get files from your local machine which are needed for the built website and you upload them to your website folder on the server. You can make a backup and empty the server website folder first.
I presented that approach in this answer:
How to deploy nopCommerce 3.5 to new server from source?
You can check this batch script to see which files need to be sent to the server. The script also includes some suggestions about what else you may need to do to update the website on the server: https://gist.github.com/dan-mirescu/c14cc72e3f8ecca988b7
For Publishing the NopCommerce Application website below is the step:
Step : 1 - Publish the Nop.Web project.
Step : 2 - Publish the Nop.Admin project.
Go to the publish folder where your publish created
Step : 3 - Cut all dll from the Administration and Paste all dll to bin folder which in main bin folder for whole project
Step : 4 - Copy two things from your source project and in App_Data folder Settings.txt and InstalledPlugins.txt which is not published in your publish file so paste this two files in your publish folder in App_Data. (You need to change the connection string in Setting.txt as per your database host).
Step : 5 - Now you need to copy whole plugins folder from your source folder (but remember this plugins folder you need to copy from the Presentation folder not from the main source where the solution file are there.).
Step : 6 - Now your publish have been ready.(now you can deploy on hosting server)

How can I stop "jekyll build" from overwriting existing files in the output directory?

The source for my Jekyll-powered website lives in a git repo, but the website also needs to have a couple large static files that are too large to go under version control. Thus, they are not part of the Jekyll build pipeline.
I would like for these to simply live in an assets directory in the Jekyll destination (which is a server directory; note that I don't have have any control over the server here; all I can do is dump static files into a designated directory) that does not exist in the git repo. But, running jekyll build deletes everything in the output directory.
Is there a way to change Jekyll's behavior in this case? Or is there some other good way to handle this issue?
Not sure this addresses the specific case in the OP, but seeing as how I kept getting to this page when I finally found an answer here, I thought I'd add an answer to this question in case it helps others.
I have a git post-hook that builds my jekyll site in my webhost when I push to my host, but it was also deleting anything else that I had FTP'ed over. So now I've put anything I need to stick around in a directory (external/ in my case), and added the following to my _config.yml:
exclude: [external]
keep_files: [external]
and now files in external/ survive.
If you upload Jekyll's output directory via FTP to your server, you can use a FTP tool that lets you ignore folders.
For example, my own site is built with Jekyll, but hosted on my own webspace, so I'm uploading it via FTP.
I explained in this answer how I scripted the building and uploading process, so I can update my site with a single click.
In my case (Windows), I used WinSCP, a free command-line FTP client, for this.
If you're not on Windows, you need to use something else, but there are probably other FTP tools out there that are able to ignore folders.
To ignore your assets folder in WinSCP, you just need to put this line into the script file:
(the file which contains the actual WinSCP commands - read my other answer for more information)
option exclude "assets/"
Now you can upload your large assets folder on the server once, and it won't be overwritten/deleted when you later update your site via FTP.