[Leica] Lightroom merge

[Robert Baron]

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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