A regular file can reside on both devices.
The current version of EndNote has networking capabilities, and files can reside on a central server.
In a webtop the applications, data, files, configuration, settings, and access privileges reside remotely over the network.
Now imagine, the advocates of virtual desktops say, if those files could always reside in something like Mr. Brady's "safe deposit box in the sky."
These files can reside on a Microsoft Windows network share or on a Samba server.
In the past, many users shared a single large computer, and all files resided in one machine.
With the advent of personal computers, files now reside in thousands of places.
The file commonly resides in /etc/mtab.
Maintain an online catalog of the location of files written to tape and a list of what files reside on each tape volume.
If a file resides in a directory with the sticky bit set, then deleting the file requires one to be the owner of the file.