NAS that supports Apple versioning

[zamboknee]

I have a Synology DS220j external, networked (NAS) drive. It's been working fine but all of the sudden I'm unable to save a Numbers document.
I tried 'Save' and 'Save As.' but I keep getting this pop-up.
Synology says you can't do 'Apple Versioning' on networked drives.
Couple questions...

1. How do I save this file to the NAS drive?
2. Are there other NAS devices/manufacturers that DO support Apple versioning or is this a universal limitation?

Thank you!

 

[9valkyrie]

How do I save this file to the NAS drive?

The message seems to indicate that it has been saved, just the versioning isn't available. Personally I use Git on my NAS for version control.

 

[zamboknee]

The message seems to indicate that it has been saved, just the versioning isn't available. Personally I use Git on my NAS for version control.

What's 'Git?'

 

[ipaqrat]

What's 'Git?'

In this case, not what you yell at your cat jumped on the counter where you're trying to make your sammich.

GIT is a version control tool designed for program code, as it proceeds through development/test workflow and ultimately release to users. It's not what I consider user-friendly. It has rather tedious learning curve, technical overhead and in most cases, command-line shells, i.e., the terminal. Even with all that, it ain't bulletproof. If this hasn't put you off, here's a link to Git for beginners.

You might be better off doing Save-As from time to time.

 

[zamboknee]

'Git' (non-cat shooing) is a little above me.
Are there NAS drive manufacturers who DO do versioning or is this an 'Apple thing.'
Also, file won't let me save as.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I hard wired an old time capsule to my network, took the HDD out of it & stuck an 8tb ssd in it. I think you can get a TC for about $30 these days.
But now I just use CarbonCopy Cloner to do it between machines.

 

[next_cube]

I have a Synology DS220j external, networked (NAS) drive. It's been working fine but all of the sudden I'm unable to save a Numbers document.
I tried 'Save' and 'Save As.' but I keep getting this pop-up.
Synology says you can't do 'Apple Versioning' on networked drives.
Couple questions...

1. How do I save this file to the NAS drive?
2. Are there other NAS devices/manufacturers that DO support Apple versioning or is this a universal limitation?

Thank you!

I use Synology Drive and you can configure how many versions you like to keep of every file. Works pretty well with MacOS, iPadOS, iOS, Windows, Linux etc.

Synology Drive

 

[9valkyrie]

file won't let me save as.

Question: How are you connecting your NAS? Samba? SFTP?

 

[Wowfunhappy]

I think you could use Disk Utility to create a "sparse bundle" on the NAS and then format the sparse bundle as an Apple native file system (e.g. APFS, HFS+). I think I did something like this a very long time ago and it worked, but I don't remember what side effects there were if any.

I don't think there's any other way to do it.