Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks again, Brian. I will then just continue doing what I do now. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu YNWA > 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.