# Desktop on more than one machine
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/more/desktop-multi-device

Every install of the desktop app registers itself, so the other machine can say where a project lives, sync preferences follow the account, and a conflict names the device.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

A studio Mac and a laptop signed into the same account used to know nothing
about each other. Now each install registers itself on Aden and reports
which tracks it holds: the folders linked to cloud tracks, how fresh the
project on disk is, and the tracks that exist only there. Names and dates
only. No file ever leaves a machine because of this.

## What you see [#what-you-see]

* **On the Local tab**, under the tracks on this Mac, a block per other
  install: "On your MacBook", with each track it holds, when it was last
  opened, and "not on Aden yet" for a track that only exists there.
* **On Home**, a "Continue" list: the last tracks opened on any of your
  machines, newest first, and where.
* **On the track page on the web**, "Project on Studio Mac, opened
  Tuesday" for your own machines, and a note when that project is newer
  than what was pushed.
* **When a linked folder pulls a newer project**, the message names who
  pushed it: your other machine, or a collaborator's.

## Sync preferences follow the account [#sync-preferences-follow-the-account]

Which files stay offline (cloud only or on this Mac, per team, track, album
or milestone, and the date filter) is a decision about the work, so it is
saved to the account and applied on every install. Folder paths stay per
machine. The newer copy wins when two disagree.

## An album in one click [#an-album-in-one-click]

In a team's sync settings, each album has "Sync album": it pulls every
track's project files for that album in one run.