When you check out files from a repository, Webtop downloads the files to a location on your computer. This location is your checkout directory.
You can open, edit, and close the file directly from your checkout directory, whether or not you are connected to the repository. When you are ready to save the file back to the repository, you check it back in.
By default, your checkout directory is in one of the following locations:
On Windows operating systems:
//Documentum/Checkout
On Macintosh operating systems:
Root:Users:user_name:Documentum:Checkout
Your can change the location of your checkout directory in your Webtop preferences.
In some cases, when you check out a file, Webtop might not copy it to your computer but instead stream it to your computer. Whether this happens depends on the file’s editing application. If Webtop streams the file to your computer, it is not saved to your local machine.