Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/10/09

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Subject: [Leica] Questions about using NAS with LR
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 15:59:16 +0200
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Thanks again, Brian. I will then just continue doing what I do now.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 9 Oct 2021, at 14:30, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the very clear explanation, Brian. I have a simpler
>> question. Now that I am beginning to travel more again, I want to work
>> on photos when on the road. What I usually do is to create a dedicated
>> small LR catalog on my laptop for the photos I do during the trip.
>> When I come home, I connect the portable disc to my desktop computer
>> and use the ?import from another catalog? command in LR to get the
>> travel photos into my normal LR catalog.
> 
> That is exactly what I do.
> 
>> Could I instead synch the main LR catalog to a portable drive, add to
>> it and work on it during the trip, and then synch back to the main
>> catalog when I return?
> 
> Yes but.
> 
> It would normally work, but it is a bad idea to separate a LR catalog from 
> its images. For this technique to work with 100% safety, you would need to 
> sync over not just the main LR catalog but all of the associated images. 
> Dropbox will do this reliably as long as you are careful to check the 
> Dropbox sync status each time you launch LR, but Dropbox has a limit of 
> 3TB for most of its plans and most of those plans are hundreds of dollars 
> per year.



In reply to: Message from bmwred735i at gmail.com (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Fwd: Questions about using NAS with LR)
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Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Questions about using NAS with LR)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Questions about using NAS with LR)