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dougr11903954
dougr11903954
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Oct 10, 2024 9:43 PM UTC
Question

Multi Computer Workflow for Lightroom Classic

I've never found a workflow that works well in my use case — hoping some of you all can help:

1) Shooting Tethered to a desktop (Lightroom Classic)

2) Sometimes Processing on that Machine but...

3) Sometimes need to process on a second machine

 

I'd prefer to keep everything in Classic (since the tools aren't quite the same between them, and I have a different license on the second machine anyway).

 

The online editor doesn't work very well for my needs.

 

I'm fine connecting the machines to transfer images, but want to make it simple, fast and seamless.

 

Any thoughts are much appreciated!

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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Oct 10, 2024 9:54 PM UTC

The easiest and most seamless option is probably to save your catalog and your images onto an external hard drive. Then you can simply connect that external drive to the other computer and work with the same catalog on that other computer. 

 

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dougr11903954
dougr11903954Author
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Oct 10, 2024 9:57 PM UTC

Like it! Would you just backup at shutdown to a second source (in this case, the internal drive of the desktop machine)? As I don't always trust the little drives without some redundancy.

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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Oct 10, 2024 10:04 PM UTC

Yes, I always backup my catalog when I shut down Lightroom, and obviously not to the same drive. The advantage of letting Lightroom Classic make a catalog backup is that it also verifies the integrity and optimizes the catalog in this process. Then after that is done I would also use a separate backup utility to backup the entire disk in this particular setup, because Lightroom does not backup the images, just the catalog.

 

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