Larry - This workaround works with Windows. Maybe you can come up with a way to do this with the Mac OS.
http://vimeo.com/12697388 -p Sent from my iPad On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
