Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scenario #1 is what I do all the time. I import photos to a portable hard drive when I'm traveling, work on them, and then import them to my main catalog when I get home. Scenario #2 you would just import the photos from the hard drive into your catalog. The photos are never actually moved. They are just added to your catalog in LR. If you want to disconnect that hard drive but still view your photos, you can tell LR to make Smart Previews which take up more room on the hard drive where your catalog lives, but the photos are still not moved. They stay wherever they were when you accessed them. You can load LR on two separate computers with no problems. The catalogs will be the same. If you want to use more than two computers (when you travel maybe) , you can sign out on one computer and sign in on another one. The program is not removed or changed. Sign back in when you have finished using the third or forth computer. Hope this helps. Tina On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > If I wanted to use LR CC in the following situations, #1, is it possible? > #2, What Image and sidebar and catalog files do I need to put where to make > this work...? > > > > > > Scenario #1... I am on a trip. I have a PC with me. I take images and > wish to review them and sort out the bad ones in LR CC while on the road. > The images will be located on a USB HDD ( Downloaded from the SD Card.) > When I get home I wish to merge them into my master file on my desktop PC > with all edits intact. ( I think this is what the merge catalog function > is > used for.?). > > > > Scenario #2 ( and not mutually exclusive to the first scenario...) I am > home. My PC computer is on a home WIFI network, located in my office. > All > my images are on that computer. I have a backup USB HDD with the same > images on it that I COULD use. I wish to edit my images from a Laptop ( > PC) > in another room in the house. Same questions.. How do I best access the > images from a remote location? What files must I access to make this > scenario work? Ideally, I should be modifying the file on the office > computer so that I really only have 1 set of files in play. I COULD use > the > external USB HDD if required as a temporary vehicle.. But this is less than > ideal. > > > > I could not be the only shmuck in the world that wants to do this... So it > SHOULD be possible. Figuring it out is what frustrates me.. > > It WAS easier with contact sheets.. > > > > TIA > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://t.sidekickopen35.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XYgfmKYPW4WzBHl3Mx_9dW3LqWkM56dQ1Jf7P8b5b02?t=http%3A%2F%2Ftina-manley.artistwebsites.com%2F&si=6038418186567680&pi=737b5007-1906-49a5-a43c-a75e722a1749> www.tinamanley.com http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/tinamanley http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/