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wpkphoto
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June 6, 2023
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Relative links to catalog & photos

  • June 6, 2023
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I use two computers for my Lightroom Classic, a laptop & desktop. Both Macs.  I keep all my files on Dropbox, but the path to dropbox is different for each computer.  I can't fix that.  Is there a way to identify the paths as relative to the catalog or something like that?

 

For example:

Laptop:

/user/username/dropbox/lightroom...

/user/username/dropbox/photos...

 

Desktop:

/external-drive/dropbox/lightroom...

/external-drive/dropbox/photos...

 

idea is:

../lightroom...

../photos...

 

Thanks

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Sean McCormack
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 6, 2023

Would a symbolic link which located at the same place on each computer work perhaps?  I've done it with previews in the past. 

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/297721/how-to-create-and-use-symbolic-links-aka-symlinks-on-a-mac/

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.