Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do exactly the same. Work on a catalog on an external hard drive when I'm traveling and export as catalog when I get home. Always works perfectly. I do tend to review everything once I get home with a better monitor! Tina On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:46 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> wrote: > >________________________________ > > > >Does either of these books contain a good guide to using LR to review, > edit > >and adjust on a laptop when in the field and then moving same to a desktop > >when back home? > > > >I've been cruising the various LR forii on this subject and every poster > >seems to have a different idea of the 'right' way to do it. > > > > > > > > > I'd use an external drive and just build the catalog on the external drive. > > When you get home, open the external drive catalog and use the "export as > catalog" function to transfer everything to the permanent drive. > > (I use a "bad practice" of using different catalogs for each major function > - each project or client has its own catalog. I don't like having > everything in one tree - I' rather have some actual organization to the > file > structure. Personal quirk.) > > If you're shooting stock, you could work with a combination of > import/export to get there. I'd ask Tina about that; it's more what she > does, I think. > > > R. Clayton McKee > PhotoJournalist > from somewhere just south of somewhere else... > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com