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Subject: [Leica] Lightroom Catalog Question
From: dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:02:56 -1000
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Hi Nathan,

Thanks. I am hoping the catalog can be on a network drive as it seems to 
me it would be easier.

Your system is, of course, do-able. I was hoping for a more automatic 
sync ability. I am still working on learning its capabilities; 

Thanks for your input,
Dennis


Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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