On Jun 3, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Larry, I ran across this blog article on sharing Lr catalogs with > multi computers: > > http://mansurovs.com/sharing-lightroom-catalog-with-multiple-computers
Thanks. I think that the answer is going to be closer to "export to catalog" and import from catalog, and just making small "for the day" catalogs to work on things. Unfortunately, at the cost of a network drive, it just isn't going to happen in the near future. > > Cheers! > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> 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 l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
