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sushisean
sushisean
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September 7, 2018
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Copy of all originals on NAS, 2 computers

  • September 7, 2018
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I'm in the process of migrating to Lightroom CC from Classic to streamline my workflow, which contains tons of travel photography.

I have an iMac Pro at home, and a MacBook Pro I travel with. I think Lightroom CC is going to really streamline my flow:

  1. Import Canon RAW to MacBook on the road
  2. Sync to cloud (only a fraction will sync, because wifi isn't sufficient around the world to count on uploading 100+gb of images)
  3. Return home and connect to NAS, images start transferring to NAS location configured in MacBook "copy of all originals at the specified location"
  4. Finish sync to cloud with fast home WiFi

My question is, can my iMac and MacBook use the exact same path for "copy of all originals at the specified location"? This way, I only have 1 copy of the originals stored on my NAS, rather than a 2+tb copy per machine. It would also allow me to import photos into either machine, without having to worry about which computer is storing locals where.

Really looking forward to my streamlined workflow with CC

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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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    September 7, 2018

    I would be very careful with using the same local NAS storage for more than one computer. I wouldn't be surprised if you can cause some major file corruption this way. I think the probability is low of that happening but real. Just a cautionary tale. I don't think CC is designed to handle the case where two installations might be writing to the same location for local storage.

    sushisean
    sushiseanAuthor
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    September 9, 2018

    Thanks, really hoping that's not the case. The app should be smart enough to realize a file is there already. I've done limited testing but it appears to work how I hope it does, understood that it might be a risk. I guess as long as it doesn't impact the way things are stored in the cloud, there's nothing to lose really.

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