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Jason22324941y2lr
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November 23, 2022
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Recommendations for NAS for Lightroom

  • November 23, 2022
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I am using a new Macbook Pro with Lightroom and I want to store my original images on a NAS.

 

I have been doing this with an older QNAP NAS, but lightroom keeps loosing the NAS and I have to keep finding the missing folders in lightroom. QNAP have suggested that maybe the older NAS is not upto the task.

 

Any recomendations on NAS's. My preference is to stay with QNAP as I would like to use the current NAS as a backup and the new NAS as storage. 

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lyonesseb97518453
lyonesseb97518453
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March 31, 2025

its 2025... and I just got this error as well. Any luck? Any tips? 

lyonesseb97518453
lyonesseb97518453
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March 31, 2025

sorry wrong chat. please delete my message

GoldingD
GoldingD
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November 23, 2022

Actually LrC is not up to the task of using a NAS or any other Network storage, be it a NAS, an actual Server, or the cloud. Specifically Adobe does not support placing the catalog on a network share. They do appear to support placing the photos on a network share (at least if smart previews are used) BUT many find that eventually fails in exactly the situation you had.

 

My recommendation would be use NAS for backups, use external hard drives for photos (could be a RAID).

 

I assume you use a NAS as to support  two different computers. Not for extra space (a lot more money for that vs external drives). Their are other ways to do that.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/catalog-faq-lightroom.html

 

Link below goes against some of what I said above, but...

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-to-lightroom-catalog-multiple-computers/

 

 

 

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    Jason22324941y2lrAuthor
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    November 24, 2022

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    The catalog is on the laptop, and for the most part the DMG files start on the laptop then are moved to the NAS after the project is finished.

     

    I've seen a lot of articles/videos of professional photographers using synology NAS's for storage with lightroom. Adobe gives advice on the following link (https://helpx.adobe.com/au/lightroom-cc/using/preferences.html#store-originals-network-drive) on how to use a NAS for original images.

     

    I've used external hard drives in the past. Portability of a larger external harddrive systems is an issue (as I don't want lots of external hard drives and I prefer to RAID set up incase a drive fails), and being able to access the NAS remotly makes it an attractive option if I can get the right one.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    November 25, 2022

    That article you provided a link to is for Lightroom (then called CC) not for Lightroom Classic .

     

    Now going back and reading your original post, I am wondering if you posted in the correct community, and if I was replying to the wrong question.

     

    What is your current apps full name and version?

     

    And see: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-cc-vs-classic-features/

     

     

     

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