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beno8747930
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beno8747930
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‎Aug 17, 2019
07:24 AM
Excellent, what i've done is copied the Lightroom Catalog.ircat file into Drobox and a folder on my desktop and copied the photos to both locations as well. Looks like i am all set for now, thanks a lot for you help
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‎Aug 15, 2019
07:36 AM
Ok, got you. So i can redirect Lightroom to look at my new drive, thanks a lot
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‎Aug 15, 2019
07:19 AM
Ok, cool but what i do right now is save everything on a portable HDD. What i'm saying is, if that gets stolen. How do i copy my backup from either a different portable HDD or from cloud storage option into a location that no longer exists because it is stolen? This is the last thing i need a clear answer on, then i'm all good, cheers
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‎Aug 15, 2019
06:49 AM
Thanks for your replies again. The only thing i don't understand is what if that drive HDD is stolen, how do you copy your second lot of backups into a location, if that no longer exists and is stolen. I may be thinking too much into it but i just didn't get it
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‎Aug 15, 2019
05:43 AM
Ok, thanks for all the answers, so if i change the settings to Auto Write Changes to XMP will it change exisiting files? If i do this, i should copy the original file and XMP File over to the second backup after finishing editing? But i still need to save the catalog file to the second backup too? Also i need to change where the original backup is sent to a different location out of the catalog folder. Just clarifying also that the catalog file is where all the edit information is kept? Lastly what happens when you have to use the second backup? how do you reload your photos into Lightroom so all the edits are kept? I'm nearly there, thanks for all the patience and advice so far.
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‎Aug 15, 2019
04:42 AM
Thanks for the quick response mate. Probably asking an amateur question here but i take it the catalog is where all the edits are stored? So recap for me is - Save original photos on HDD as per normal Copy original photos to Dropbox Create folder for Lightroom catalog in Dropbox When finished editing backup catalog to Dropbox When exiting Lightroom, backup catalog to HDD as per normal So if either one HDD or Dropbox/HDD2 gets lost or stolen how do i reload the catalog/edits and photos to Lightroom? Is it a simple redirect on Lightroom?
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‎Aug 15, 2019
04:11 AM
Basically the same as written in the topic. I would like to know how i can have my files/edits saved in two different locations. What i mean by that is currently i have all my photos synced to Lightroom Classic on a portable hard drive but what i would like to do is have them also on something like dropbox or another hard drive incase the first hard drive gets stolen or fails on me. Is it possible for Lightroom to do this in the settings? or do i have save my files in both locations, do my edits as per normal and if it fails or gets stolen i redirect the location to my other drive with the files saved? The only thing is will this keep all my edits? And if si what is the safest way to do it. Thanks in advance for any help in regards to this!
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