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

I was extremely disappointed to note that the beta of LR4 does NOT contain any ability for multi-user, network hosted operations. Do we have to wait until the 22nd century?

I'm wondering what you mean by a hefty drive? My system has an external 1TB drive that I use for housing Lightroom catalog and all of the photos.

Using an external drive for the photos and the catalog allows us to move work from one computer to another but limits us to only one person working at a time. That is grossly inconvenient and inefficient and is a slap in the face when you consider that storing a multi-user shared catalog and photos on a network drive would be much more convenient and effective.

It is about time that Adobe move Lightroom into the 21st Century! Networks have been with us for a long time now.

It would have to be a hefty drive to take all your images as well as all your cats. then you will need to back it all up on another drive and if you are a paranoid like me you need another for a second backup. Much easier to sync on a home wifi. At present I export my images as a cat from my macbook to imac and that is tedious and a pain in the whatsit.

Does it work on Windows or only for Mac?

I'd love to have a multi user LR! I still install Media Pro (aka Iview and Expression Media) for my professionnal clients who need a DAM software.

This could be useful in so many enterprises, NGO, non-profit organisations, local authority where more than one person deals with pictures!

Iview / Media Pro is doing it since a long time, but features speaking LR is way better.

Not currently possible or supported. Some folks have workarounds that aren't officially supported/recommended.

Please could you let me know if the new version of Lightroom (4) will enable the sharing of a catalog. In other words I have two machines, and would like to know if the second machine can utilise the catalog on the first machine via icloud or a network.

I put a post up on how to get network access to a Lightroom catalogue via read/write dmg with OS X using gigabit. It's a one-user-at-a-time thing but is very useful still. I've actually been doing this for 4 years now. Sorry for not spilling the beans until now.

http://theagnosticprint.org/how-to-ne...

All the best,
Walker

Whoops - kinda left your post out of context there - sorry 'bout that ;-}

This might work for you: http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...

(copies shared catalog from net to local host, if free (and reserves it for exclusive access)... when done for now, copies it back and frees it so others can use...).

Good for infrequent hand-offs, and/or small catalogs.