Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dennis, I don't think you can have the catalog on a network drive, but I am prepared to be corrected. I travel reasonably frequently and have LR 3.2 on both my iMac at home and on the Macbook Pro laptop that travels with me. However, the primary catalog is on the iMac at home. When I go on a trip, I create a catalog specific to that trip on the laptop. During the trip I process pictures etc. Just before flying home I copy all the pictures and that trip catalog to my iPod, both as a backup but also to transfer it to the desktop on return. Once everything is on the desktop, I simply open the main catalog, do the "file...import from catalog..." bit, point LR to the trip catalog, and voila--everything is together. It actually sounds more complicated than it is in practice. Cheers, Nathan On 14 Sep, 2010, at 10:50 , Dennis wrote: > I downloaded the eval copy of Lightroom 3 and it looks very good but I'm > not sure about the catalog feature. > > The license indicates I can install a copy on my laptop and on my desktop > and I would want to do that. > > One issue that may prevent me from using Lightroom is the catalog and how > to deal with a catalog on the desktop computer and a catalog on the > laptop.I don't see how to synchronize the two catalogs The desktop and > laptop are on a network and ideally one click would do the trick. It may > be in Lightroom, but so far I haven't found it. If you have two computers > how do you synchronize the catalogs? > > As a separate question can a catalog be on a NAS box and shared between > the two computers? > > Thanks for any assistance, > Dennis > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog