P: Allow Catalog to be stored on a networked drive.

Now Adobe has gone main stream with mobile and cloud storage space it would make sense at this juncture to take the next logical leap and allow users to store and sync their catalogs in the cloud for auto sync to other connected devices via the CC membership... please please please!!!

It's on my wish list....

That this problem/bug has been so popular and remains unsolved for so long is astounding. Does anyone at Adobe ever read this forum?

There are lot posts on many forums that discuss various details of this problem, but the overarching, big picture requirement is have complete, automatic transparency on multiple computers after a simple, one-step synchronization. There are probably other requirements, but my need is to have complete duplication of:

1. Source images (raw, NEF, CR2, etc.) and derivative images (TIF, JPG, etc.) known to LR and PS. [Desirable: list other folders of images not cataloged by LR for exports.]

2. Side car files (XMP)

3. Metadata stored in the LR Catalog (LRCAT, LRDATA, etc.)

4. Terabyte + of data in aggregate

There are problems with various "solutions" posted elsewhere.

1. Export with catalog is impractical and cumbersome at best. When do you have time and patience for a many-step "solution?" Why should a customer be subjected to this level of effort?

2. I am no longer willing to edit the registry file after retirement. It seems likely that there may be some customers who do not even understand those answers.

3. Storing all photographs and ancillary files on an external hard drive is interesting, but slow, cumbersome and impractical -- albeit the best compromise I have found. Ultimately, this is unacceptable to me.

4. The many variations of copying files across the network in special ways, ensuring duplicate file paths (net use, subst, etc.) do not work in my experience (not accepted by LR).

Please let me know if I've missed any Adobe capabilities or posts for other solutions.

My ideal solution would work like the Microsoft "Available Offline" feature. My laptop automatically synchronizes with my desktop every time it can over the LAN.

My two cents as well... as a growing studio that needs more help, we are now hiring additional editors to help us get products out the door to our lab in a more efficient manner. As a professional solution, LR is a wonderful product in so many ways - but the lack of ability to allow multiple users access the same library is a huge disadvantage! For us to survive, we need to be able to have multiple people working in the same catalog simultaneously. That means we need to have more computers running your software at the same time, which means more licenses that we would need to purchase. So look at it in that regard, rather than logging in and out of multiple machines, I would then need to have five machines running LR at the same time, which would mean three licenses, not just one! Thanks so much!

As a Photographer I often hire interns or independents to assist with culling, color correction and image adjustments. The need for Lightroom to be multi-user or shared from say a central server is more than just a matter of convenience. With a history in photojournalism, agency work and publishing, I see this as a needed feature across the board with respect to the photography industry. Adobe, wake up and add the dang feature already.

POSSIBLE HELP HERE > From my den I REMOTELY access my main 'mo-fo' computer sitting in the office using windows Remote Desktop Connection.

[ edit: the main pc runs LR5 and remote pcs ... do not have LR installed ]
[ edit: again only one remote pc can access the LR machine, at a time ]

This won't help everyone but single users who wish to work from any pc in the house:

... fast being my homenet is a simple gigalan, my mainframe an i5 running Win7 x32 with ve all read here.

I keep a quick launch icon for Microsofts Remote Connection (mstsc.exe), or just search your start menu as Remote ... desktop connection. Yes you must know your remote PCs lan address.. which rarely changes in my joint.

Adobe Lightroom ... has its limitations for sure. Thank Jeffery Friedl for his LR plugins ... else LR would just continue to be a pain.

Hope this helps some of you. I enjoyed your answers and cross fire entertainment.

In all this time, everyone has been debating it, it could have been rewritten in open source.
#justsayin

I'm not in a mood to tell Adobe how they should implement it: that's their job and we pay for that service.

But, as found on a web site, and countless others on the same subject for so many years:

It would be incredible if Adobe created a feature that allowed one Lightroom catalog to be opened from multiple computers at the same time (simultaneously syncing adjustments between the computers). How difficult can this really be? This would be such a valuable feature to the enormous number of photographers using more than one computer workstation.

It feels like it's the fourth time my wife and me are considering how to share our photos in a decent manner. And with Lightroom, we're still confronted with that same old problem. And don't tell me about Smart Previews: this feels inelegant, inefficient, and clumsy.

What's the benefit of using the BitTorrent Sync over the syncing via the Dropbox?

thanks sean......i'll check that out!

Quick answer: no. Adobe has yet to implement a multi-user (multi-device) environment beyond their iPad sync system.

Long answer: If it's just you and two devices, you can set up a catalog sync with a MAJOR caveat being you can't work on them at the same time. It's so prone to error that I just don't want to risk it. But, if you want to give it a try, here's a method: http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/01/07...