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How to use Lightroom both on a laptop and a home desktop - Leica User Forum — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:18:27 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:20:15 +0000

Ok, I am learning late. Currently, I have one catalog containing all my images and the size has grown to over 40K. Now that I am learning the benefits of breaking down the content into smaller, logically oragnized catalogs, can I create new catalogs and relocate the content of the large one?

By: GX

GX — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:59:58 +0000

Hi David
I think you found the answer. You make a collection of photos from different catalogues and use that. Once completed you have one collection of merged photos.

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:54:22 +0000

Hello,
I understand the performance issue of the catalogs but what I don’t understand is this:
Let’s say I broke my whole catalog down.I make a catalog of 2006 pictures, 2007 pictures etc. Now I have 3 catalogs and I can only one at a time. LR doesn’t give the possibitly to search outside the open catalog or? what happens If I’m building a project or collection with pictures that are in different folders I assume I can’t create a slideshow or Web page due to they are dispared in different catalogs. Is it maybe useful to have the huge catalog and the small ones. Generally working with the small ones and then for these things like slideshows etc. use the big one but I assume you can’t take the settings of the small catalogs and transfer them via synchronize folder to the huge one or?

By: TwoJ

TwoJ — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:23:16 +0000

The Achilles’ heel is that the lightroom catalog doesn’t support being used from a network drive, only a local drive, meaning that you cannot share a catalog between multiple computers, meaning if you want to work on your photos on 2 computers you either have to export/import your entire collection (GBs & GBs) or you need to save your entire catalog & photos to an external usb drive which can be used by both computers. I think this was a pretty major oversight on adobe’s part in the days when alot of people are using multiple computers for managing their photos

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:33:05 +0000

This is great, but how the heck do you convert your existing “old school” folder database to your preferred cataloging method?

By: Rasso

Rasso — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:37:50 +0000

This is a good guide line for every photographers. ^^ I’ll introduce this to my friends. Thanks~

By: T.J.

T.J. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:30:04 +0000

What maybe should have been said about the “3 locations” is that at least one should be OFF-SITE, to guard against loss due to theft, fire, etc.

By: James

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:07:02 +0000

Three backup locations?! If you have the money and time to spend on getting and maintaining three backups, fine. But two should suffice: if your system breaks, you can restore it from the backup; if the backup breaks, make a new backup from your system. The chance that both your system and your backup break at the same time is very (very) small.