[Leica] OT: Lightroom 3 book recommendations?

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)]

Have you tried doing this using a usb flash drive?  I just bought a 64GB
'thumb drive' and I'm going to try this out on my 'field trip' to the wilds
of Manhattan.....

But somewhere I have been told to put the images on the external drive and
the catalog (which includes the database and the information on edits etc)
on the internal drive.  Bad advice?  You're putting the whole megilah on the
external drive?

--Bob

==On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
wrote:

> I do exactly the same.  Work on a catalog on an external hard drive when
> I'm
> traveling and export as catalog when I get home.  Always works perfectly.
>  I
> do tend to review everything once I get home with a better monitor!
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:46 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > >________________________________
> > >
> > >Does either of these books contain a good guide to using LR to review,
> > edit
> > >and adjust on a laptop when in the field and then moving same to a
> desktop
> > >when back home?
> > >
> > >I've been cruising the various LR forii on this subject and every poster
> > >seems to have a different idea of the 'right' way to do it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > I'd use an external drive and just build the catalog on the external
> drive.
> >
> > When you get home, open the external drive catalog and use the "export as
> > catalog" function to transfer everything to the permanent drive.
> >
> > (I use a "bad practice" of using different catalogs for each major
> function
> > - each project or client has its own catalog.  I don't like having
> > everything in one tree - I' rather have some actual organization to the
> file
> > structure.  Personal quirk.)
> >
> > If you're shooting stock, you could work with a combination of
> > import/export to get there.  I'd ask Tina about that; it's more what she
> > does, I think.
> >
> >
> > R. Clayton McKee
> > PhotoJournalist
> > from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
> >
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