[Leica] Lightroom merge

[Adam Bridge]

I keep my Lightroom catalog on the laptop's internal drive but keep the images on a separate external drive. (I'm using a relatively small SSD internal so keeping large number of images on it doesn't work well.)

I make a separate catalog for each trip and make that one the default.

When I return home I do an "Export as Catalog" to a new folder on the external drive. Lightroom then thoughtfully packages up everything into one place. I then dismount the external from my laptop, plug it into my Desktop, and then "Import From Another Catalog..." which handles all the copying for me.

This seems to work quite well and it ensures the metadata is all moved appropriately. I've been trying to take a lesson from Tina and keyword my images. Sometimes I'm better at it than others. It DOES make finding things and sorting things a lot easier, though.

I use a WD "My Passport Pro" which has two 2 TB drives set up as a mirrored RAID. When I go to Africa I'll almost certainly take a small USB3 drive to act as a separate backup repository and use something like Chronosync to handle the automatic duplication between them.

All of this is on a MacBook and Mac Pro desktop system but except for the synch program everything should work identically on the PC as well.

Adam

> On 2015 Feb 5, at 9:24 AM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I travel with a copy of LR on my laptop, but I do most of my work on a
> desktop where I have my printer & supplies. Is there anyway to
> 'import' the work (raw files, adjustments, laptop catalog, etc ...)
> onto my desktop stuff?
> 
> -Lew Schwartz
> 
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