Larry, I ran across this blog article on sharing Lr catalogs with multi computers:
http://mansurovs.com/sharing-lightroom-catalog-with-multiple-computers Cheers! On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got several related issues that may have a single solution: > > I've got about 4.5TB of raw PEFs on two drives. Both drives are starting > to get full. > > I'm very tempted to convert my library of raw files from PEF to DNG. > > Zab's new laptop, a 17" macbook pro has more processing power than my iMac > and my desktop LInux box combined. When we upgrade the memory, it'll have > more memory than all of my computers combined. When it's available, or I > have a large number of photos to process, it would be handy to be able to > use it, rather than my iMac. > > I just changed to LR4, and LR4.1, so my system is somewhat in flux as I've > got various catalogs that haven't been updated yet, and I will want to split > sub catalogs (aikido, music, current working etc.) out from the massive > "everything" catalog. So, if I'm going to make any radical changes, this is > a good time to do so. > > My gut feeling is that the right way to do this is some sort of external > drive that I can share between the two machines for storing all the RAW > files. I suspect that I'll want some sort of box with gigabit ethernet on > one end, and several sata drives on the other end. My current drives can > become backups. As to the catalogs themselves, I'll just do something > careful and clever so that I've got the necessary working catalog on > whichever machine I'm using, and sync things up with import from catalog. > > I'm looking for suggestions as to general plan (for example, gigabit NAS), > as well as specifics (Todd's Network storage and fish market has the whizzbo > cottystack on sale for $200 this week) on how I should go about doing this. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
