Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You might want to watch http://tv.adobe.com/watch/the-complete-picture-with-julieanne-kost/how-to-use-lightroom-5-on-location/ 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >