On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I understand it, in broad strokes, Rick wants to "copy"/"sync" his > LR catalog from his workstation to his more portable laptop, do some work > there on the laptop, then "copy"/"sync" his work back to his workstation. He > expects any changes he made on the laptop to be 100% reflected on the > workstation. > > The rsync solution Tim describes should accomplish this. Plus it's *really* > fast.
It's not that simple. The problem is that if you rsync (or ChronoSync) the catalog file from one machine to another, the folder paths in the database can be incorrect. Only if they are organized in such a way that the folder paths are a relative subdirectory of the catalog folder do they always work correctly. There are assumptions in Tim's document which are valid only if your Lightroom setup is only using the default organization of catalog folder and image file folders. I don't store either of them in the default locations ... there's no need to and it's safer not to. And then there's the notion that Rick wants to reorganize a subset of his catalog ... there might not be enough space on his laptop to hold the entire library. I have this issue myself: my laptop has a 500G disk in it, my working image file repository *alone* is 900G at this point, never mind OS, applications, other files, and necessary free space. Synchronization tools are very useful ... I use ChronoSync every day to maintain my archives ... but they do not do what is needed for Rick's project. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
