Working with Laptop on the road. Desktop at home. How best to work and sync

Question

I have a desktop PC at home that I use as my primary catalogue. It has a large storage capacity and is quick. It has a back up solution in place. I will be working on the road now with my macbook pro and as I generate images I will want to work on them on the road. When I get home I would like all my images to reside on the primary cataloque.

As I see it I have a few options

1. Have an external drive that houses the main cataloque. The trouble is I won't be able to view all images at once because I can only connect the external drive to either my macbook pro or the PC. Also, I would need a very large external drive to house all the images I would generate. This would eventually run out of room.

2. I work on my images on the road on my laptop with its own catalogue and then move the files and merge the laptop catalogue with the Main catalogue on my PC.

3. I use the PC as Lightroom Classic and then upload my images to a collection in the cloud that I can access from my PC.

What is best practice here and what are the pitfalls of the above,

Help

Larry

TheDigitalDog · Answer

For me, using mutiple hard drives that I clone is the solution after setting up "Store Presets with Catalog" in preferences. Then just deadicate multiple HD's to all your images, the catalog and previews and clone newer (say location work) to desktop or vise versa. Now you also have another backup of all your data. On Mac you can use something as simple and inexpensive as SuperDuper to clone quickly the newer data to the older drive. Any Mac with LR can now access all your information from that dedicated (to LR) drive.

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