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kelly_roach
kelly_roach
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September 19, 2017
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Lightroom Use in a school Network

  • September 19, 2017
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I have  searched thru the forums unsuccessfully to find an answer to how to use Adobe Lightroom in a high school setting. I have a Photography course that started this September. I know and enjoy Lightroom for editing photographs and want to pass this along to my students. Like almost all schools we are on a network and the C:drives are locked to student access. All their access and file storage being on networked drives which of course Lightroom will not create a catalog on. We tried saving catalogs to USB drives and that has had very mixed success . Has anybody found a way of using Lightroom in a school setting with locked local hard drives?

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kelly_roach
kelly_roachAuthor
New Participant
September 20, 2017

Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will talk to our school district techs about this option. We would not have one shared catalog for the entire class though but separate catalogs for each student to store their individual Lr work in. would the virtual disc work for them?

Abambo
Abambo
Community Expert
September 20, 2017

You can't share catalogs. Lr is a strict single user application. That's the reason for Lr to be so strict with network locations. The users working around this with cloud storage like Dropbox or Google drive are risking the concistency of the database in case of synchronization not going as expected.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Abambo
Abambo
Community Expert
September 19, 2017

install a virtual D: drive on C: that is writable. This will work.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    cmgap
    cmgap
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2017

    Have you tested this? It is a question that comes up frequently...

    Abambo
    Abambo
    Community Expert
    September 20, 2017

    yes! It's our config. A locked down C: drive but a virtual D: drive that is writable.

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    Kat Gilbert
    Kat Gilbert
    Brainiac
    September 19, 2017

    Moved to Lr but realize this is not the correct area so hopefully someone can move to the correct location that deals with your issue...

    Kat Gilbert
    Kat Gilbert
    Brainiac
    September 19, 2017

    Moved to Lightroom. The lounge is not for technical questions. If you find this is not the right forum- please let us know so that we can better locate someone who can help!

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