Why Cove?

A drive. Not a brick, a cupboard, or a server.

There are plenty of places to put a file. Very few of them are a drive on your Mac.

The external SSD

Fast. Also losable.

An external drive is a marvellous bit of kit.

It is also a thing you can leave in the other bag, the other city, the other person’s shoot.

It fills up. It fails. It does not come with you on the train unless you remembered it.

Cove is the drive, without the brick.

iCloud

iCloud is a fine cupboard for the photos and documents Apple already understands.

It is not a volume Premiere, Logic, Capture One, or an agent can simply open.

Sync keeps a copy. Cove is the place.

Drive, OneDrive, and a VPS

Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox: lovely for a document, a shared folder, a link.

A bit hopeless when the work is a film, a session, or a repo an agent is writing into.

A VPS is the other road. You can mount one. You are then minding a computer.

Cove is one click. The files stay in the cloud. The Mac just sees a drive.

Five ways to keep a file. Only one of them is a drive on your Mac.

Compared	External SSD	iCloud	Drive & OneDrive	A VPS	Cove
Where it lives	In your bag	In Apple’s cloud	In their cloud	On a server you rent	In your cloud drive
On the Mac	If you brought it	As a library	As a sync folder	If you set it up	One click
Opens in your apps	Yes	Sometimes	Sometimes	Yes, after a faff	Yes
You carry it	Yes	No	No	No	No
Someone else, same work	Hand it over	A shared album	A shared folder	Share the machine	They mount it too

Cove is the last column on purpose. Everything else is a workaround.

Cove

Your own cloud drive.

On your Mac.