Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not see a response. so I will give my interpretation....? I know nothing about Drobo nor how you have hooked up your boxes, so I will not comment on that.... Yes, LR and a NAS are compatible.... The trick is to contact the NAS folk and have them help you.....? Synology is easy to work with and will give you pretty un-nerdy instructions. But here is the jist of the answer.... The catalog MUST be located on the internal HDD on the user computer.? BUT, this can be synced also on the NAS... and you actively keep a duplicate catalog on the NAS... This means that in practice, the MASTER CATALOG is on the NAS, with the USER CATALOG is in local storage.? Same file, different location and always synced. Syncing is constant. so the NAS copy is always up to date.? The LR Program then sees only the local copy.... which makes LR happy. The images can always be stored on the NAS. Multiple computers can use the same synching technique so they too are always up to date..... This is a 1 user model.. only 1 computer is active at a time.... It works also if you were to use USB HDD.? Same technique.... One copy of the catalog resides in the local computer, with a fully synced copy on the NAS....?? Constant or near constant catalog syncing is more difficult but can be done. Let me point out that this is not the fastest retrieval system.... Only local SSD storage can provide the very fastest retrieval service...if that is why you want a NAS, don't bother.... buy giant SSDs and use the NAS for? redundancy only. Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com On 10/22/2022 6:06 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > So NAS will NOT work with LR catalogs and storage? > > So, a Synology replacement box won?t work for my old LR catalogs currently > on a direct attached Drobo? > > I?ve moved on from LR, but have some legacy catalogs that I plan to > maintain as LR rather than migrate. > > Ric > > > > >> On Oct 22, 2022, at 6:49 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> wrote: >> >> you can NOT put your catalog on a non-"internal" storage location.... > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information