[Leica] OT: Lightroom Workflow Help

[abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)]

I?m pondering your problem, Bob, and the more I play with it the more I?m 
unsure how to solve it.

What you?re doing is just about the opposite of my own workflow which is to 
import the camera?s memory card to my laptop with a catalog created for the 
project I?m working on. I message the images as appropriate (keywords, 
adjustments, ratings, etc) and then I export the catalog with images etc. It 
makes a folder with the catalog and photos. Then I copy that over the 
network to my desktop system and import from catalog onto the desktop 
system. 

For data security I have an application that copies my laptop data to an 
external drive and I don?t erase the camera?s memory card until the images 
are stored on two separate devices and maybe until the images have been 
moved to my desktop system where they are duplicated on two different RAIDs 
(a Pegasus and a Drobo). The good stuff gets moved up to off-site archival 
storage on Amazon?s ?Glacier? .

It?s not clear from my playing, that it?s possible to do what you?re wanting 
to do - but I?ll keep playing. I understand, I think, why you?re doing it 
the way you are, but it?s not quite as envisioned.

Adam

> On Jan 1, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Chris, but that's not working. I did just that, and when I go to
> import on the desktop from the new catalogue created from the laptop with
> the changed files, it imports duplicates, even with the no duplicates
> checked.
> Should I not have the metadata be in an xmp file? Should I delete my LR
> preferences file and then reestablish my preferences?
> 
> I thought exactly like your suggestion, but not working for me... Same
> version of LR. Different ver. of Mac O/S. Stumped...