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

LR isn't really 'Collaborative' in that way. There are ways to get round it, in that you share XMP data, but it's a hack. Everyone would still be required to be running a local DB, but very difficult to manage as there's no check in check out. It's just how SQLLite (What LR runs on) works.

Lightroom as a image database... When I'm working in Lightroom, I can add or remove images to my collections. I'd like to have others on my marketing team also add or delete to these same collections. And, in the future, if I no longer work with the company, I'd like to be able to leave these collections where they can be accessed. Right now I am the sole contributor. I do like posting to CC and sharing the link with others.

Lightroom as a image database... When I'm working in Lightroom, I can add or remove images to my collections. I'd like to have others on my marketing team also add or delete to these same collections. And, in the future, if I no longer work with the company, I'd like to be able to leave these collections where they can be accessed. Right now I am the sole contributor. I do like posting to CC and sharing the link with others.

I'm surprised multiple users accessing a catalog isn't more common. Does everyone work alone? I'm just a home user and each member of the household has their own computer and camera. We want to keep our photos together in one family catalogue... because we can't just share a master catalog on the NAS... we have local copies on each computer and then have one master computer that can import the local catalogs. all of us view, develop and rate each others photos. So at an given moment all of us could access the catalog to make changes which in the current version would corrupt a shared catalog (as I understand it)... We are just home users and there mush be lots of users like us our there and even more pro users that have a need for a person to develop and meta tag and another to rate and review with customers etc.

It would be nice to use the new sync functionality in LR 5.4 to selectively sync photos from my main Lightroom catalog (desktop) to Lightroom on my notebook. The primary device would still "own" the photos/originals - on the additional machine LR would function as a temporary editing/viewing location, similar to the functionality in Lightroom Mobile today.

We can already do this via export catalog/import catalog, but since the syncing functionality is there now, I would like to avoid the export/import steps.

I would 'really' like this feature.

I am an event photographer who uses Lightroom to process, print and sell photographs to clients on site.
The ability to import images separately and at the same time on two (or more?) laptops and to the same catalogue would be a game changer for me.

As an aside, it would be fantastic for an iPad app to access the same images too!
I could process images on one laptop and clients could view in real time on other laptops/iPads etc.

I have been struggling for ages to get a setup that allowed this.
Other event photographers manage but they don't use Lightroom and basically just show unprocessed jpgs, cropping etc on the 'server' when a client buys.
I prefer to show only corrected, cropped etc images to them which is the prime reason I use Lightroom at an event as well as back at home.

Welcome Sawyer... as you can see Adobe still cares and wanted your post to be in the most informative thread available. If you'll note, there's been no activity but us customers - and as Andre points out - hey Andre nice to see ya again 🙂 - they do degrade now and then, but a multitude of solutions came from all of us "arm chair developers", and not so much from the people we turned to for a solution.

It's why right after the CC hacking I cancelled my subscription and remain on CS6 - and have implemented Corel and even Quark to replace the workflow.

Sadly though I still have to manually migrate lcats and other files between machines. Then to avoid Dropbox, I installed owncloud onto a webserver and it suits the same purpose - but with privacy, and control of encryption.

As for lightroom, we are a full version up and though we have great bells and whistles, there's never going to be a solution for this until they change their code. (well not for PC users anyway) - but here's hoping they just enable the feature for mac users as it's already supported by SQLite - Adobe just doesn't want you to have it.

Likely this will occur for "LR6" when they release it as a feature like copy and paste was for the iphone. 😛

Well, aside from a few (almost pointless, considering) arguments between users, Adobe has not manifested itself on that topic, in this thread. I guess you are right then, this is a wreck... But, in a sense, it gives me hope to know that someones remembers it enough at Adobe to merge your suggestion to it 🙂

Thanks but I actually pointed this out a few posts before... it's a windows only solution 😞 but it looks like it does the job!

I see Adobe chose to drag my comment into this train wreck of a thread. Excellent.