Lightroom works beautifully with a networked file server when it comes to reading image files. If a catalog containing files that are sited on a networked file server is open, and the server is off line, it behaves exactly as if the files were on a volume that would be locally connected (hard drive with USB/FireWire, CD or DVD, etc).
What it cannot do with a networked drive is have the *database* on the server ... where the image files are is transparent, but the database and its previews must be sited on the same system that the application is executing on. If you delete a file in an open catalog from a disk which is not mounted, and elect to delete the file from the disk, it will ask you to locate the disk that the file was deleted from. Otherwise, it simply removes it from the catalog. Godfrey On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Thibouille wrote: > Mm I dunno how Lightroom works (or not) with networked drive but I > know that up to a couple days ago my collection was stored on a > external drive connected by USB to my laptop. > If the drive wasn't connected (e.g. when I'm teaching at school) > simply Lightroom will not simply not be able to load the image full > screen and will display the thumbnail it has made (depending on your > Lightroom settings). > > I never ever had problems doing metadata or collection search in > catalog with the disk not connected. This isn't a problem. > Now, can I suppress a file from disk (disk being not connected) and > will the effective delete happen when I'll launch Lightroom with disk > connected later? I dunno, I suppose Godfrey knows. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
