What is the best way to work with files?

Question

File systems

You need to somehow organize the work with files. The files will be structured in a certain way and users should have quick access to them. If these were small dock files, they can be stored on the server without any problems and downloaded or opened in Google Docs, for example. But there may be specific and large files that need to be opened on a PC. For example psd or something like that, while these files can be quite large and downloading them from the server every time is not an option. Is there any way to access already downloaded local files from the browser and just run them on the click of a button in the browser? I know that this seems to be impossible due to the security policy of browsers, but maybe there are some permissions, I would like to get by with a web solution without a desktop application.

Answer 1

Store files on the network (for slow networks and large files, microsoft has regular file synchronization locally, it even seems to work without a domain), or use third-party synchronization tools, I strongly recommend something like syncting, the freest way to organize distributed storage without knowledge (there is better and more reliable but knowledge is needed there).
You can open files from the browser, but this will not always work correctly! try it on your projects, the link should look like this: file:///c:/temp/
But be careful, it's still 99% likely to download the file (depending on what and how is registered to open it in the browser).
If this is your environment (i.e. you can control what to install on users' machines), then write a simple application (desktop) launched as a service or from autorun and connecting to the server with a user ID (not necessary, if a local ip address is enough), waiting for a command to open a file and doing something like start file name or explorer file name (for example, on php cli it is 4 lines of code). You can then make links that tell the server to send a command to the appropriate user's file management service to open the file. The same service can collect data about local files if you do not want to manage them centrally.