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

There are workarounds to be able to do this. This would be for the case where you want to put your catalogs on a shared server so, as in my case, my wife and I can go through them to tag and rate our photos.

On windows you create a symbolic link using the mklink command.

mklink /d "c:\Photos" "\\yourserver\Photos"

Bob's your uncle.

It is just as easy in Linux and therefore Mac to do the same thing. Just search online.

I don't recommend two people opening up the same catalog at the same time, this is more for the use case where two people want to have access to the same file data.

Jim

It would be great to be able to share a catalog over the network, with the ability to have multiple editors working on a shoot.

And therefore they are more secure than data that resides on a drive that also holds one's system data, functionally exactly the same except eSATA drives connected with either a Gtech or ATTO Raid card are faster, a lot faster.

The only single difference being the sharing mountable options with IP SAN storage.

There are many solutions out there now that mount thunderbolt, USB and eSATA as iSCSI mount points.

Apart from the steps I posted a few days back which was a quick and dirty solution. I have solved sharing catalogs and previews on shared storage.

Essentially wrapping the catalogs up and viewing them inside a GUI that I have been helping develop. I have had this working with all adobe products on shared SAN storage.

Alas, it's not quite an out of the box system as yet, as it requires a schema to be pre built but i've been testing all adobe products and with success so far.

eSata drives may not be connected to your computer's internal SATA bus but they still qualify as local drives. A SAN would be limited to a Gigabit network, roughly the performance of USB2 when properly tuned. It is not exactly great performance...

Yes, Daminion, aside from having a weird name, only works on PC. I asked them if they had any plans to port to OSX and there are none at this point.

Anyways, interoperability with PS is important and I don't know how well it plays with other Adobe products...

The main point was to show that there is a need, a market and solutions that do what we talked about, for a reasonable price...

I also have used Macs for, well since I started using photoshop on a bondi blue imac running OS 8.6.

Would I use PS on a PC, depends where I worked and who for. I certainly wouldn't put them in for a client.

Macs have a legacy in graphics and for the younger generation coming into the industry, would be a shame not to carry on this legacy.

Same for Video and Audio. It's not just a statement that you see graphics, audio and video houses running macs, it's an application choice. It is as simple as that.

I used Capture one for a short time, and I did love certain aspects of it, although I actually prefer LR's RAW conversions ad as you say, the UI just isn;t as fluid as LR.

for a mac to pc change... i truly hate to say this but....
Hi, my name's john, and i've been a mac user since the dawn of macs.
I have finally quit macs because they no longer offer a unique platform for the technically minded - and here's kind of why... aside from "flash" they offer weaker performance (hardware) then a pc computer (custom built) for half the price. My pc's are tools, so I don't game and stuff, I use the web, and adobe (and the like), and thazit. Rarely am I in the "windows world" even though I'm using win8.

Additionally, for reasons we see here with SQLite - they do not network nicely with mainstream equipment in general. ALL manufacturers of highend output gear are PC first, and mac maybe. *cough* summa, epson, mimaki.

So that means my top of the line mac tower here cannot run my 60" epson printer. But an HP laptop I bought 5 years ago does just fine.

So I switched to PC, and my world had more money for play. Now listen, I know there are mac things that are better, but we pay more for form than we do for function, and that's literally what we are doing here with Adobe.

man CS6 is sexy. and I can completely get better performance from Capture One. I tried it. Blew me away - and frustrated me because it simply has a crap UI.

So I'm back to lightroom, because it's "easier" to live with the crawl with pretty than it is to be ugly and fast.

I'm ashamed of myself.

But. I am losing my patience, and I'm horrified LR5 has "nothing" i actually NEED.

I guess Adobe is making my mind up for me, because really, lightroom NOW has all I need, and it plays nice with win8, so I'm good with what I have me thinks. If it ain't broke right?

Whatever your view of Adobe, you'd risk 20 years of industry knowledge, based on what?

DamionRGB, nah. Hasn't got the same ring to it.

Better the devil you know as far as i'm concerned

Works for me. You couldn't pay me to put a mac in my house. Once I get rid of this iPhone later this year, I will once again be Apple free and plan to stay that way. I like cold boots in less than 10 seconds, compatibility with a multitude of professional software, and not being burdened with constant changes to connectors for every updated computer that comes out.

Ain't gonna fly Mark, It's PC only.