Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Adam, and Piers. Indeed it appears that I should simply continue my existing import-export routine. Adam, I have no idea what ZFS/ECC is, and I don?t really want to know :-) i have two backups of everything, that should be good enough (and was, when I had a hard disk crash recently). Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 12 May 2015, at 04:31, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > > This is the route I have chosen, Nathan. > > I have a Thunderbolt external drive that I export to, then import from on > my dekstop system. Everything moves across, both systems are happy. > > I have started to worry about data integrity. A few dropped bits in the > wrong part of an image file and you have garbage. The Mac isn?t > particularly good for that. And the ?cloud?? Who knows what sort of > software is running up there? Do they really care? We can?t know. > > I keep hoping that Apple will get religion, adopt or create something like > ZFS and put ECC memory in all their machines showing they DO care about my > data. > > In the meantime I have started computing check-sums for my images and > saving those. It doesn?t consume a lot of time although it?s just extra > book keeping. > > Maybe I?m paranoid. > > Adam > >> On 2015 May 10, at 6:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> >> I work with Lightroom on my laptop and on my desktop. Until now my >> typical pattern has been to work on the laptop during trips and then do >> an ?export as catalog? and import that catalog into the main catalog on >> the desktop computer. I wonder if there is a more elegant way to synch >> the catalogs on the two computers?is there some cloud magic that can be >> used? >> >> I run LR 5.7 on Mac OS X Yosemite on both computers. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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