Referring to my question 3 above: "3. As I said in OP the originals for the iMac are located on "LIBRARIES", which is a portable Samsung T5 external SSD. If I move the T5 from the iMac to my MBP, and set the "location for originals" to be "LIBRARIES", will the MacBook Pro recognise the originals and use them instead of downloading from the Cloud? This might be useful when travelling as I am sometimes in locations where the internet is negligible, (although I know smart previews would take care of syncing later.)" and Jim's reply: 3. Yes, it may be possible. Although there's a unique alpha-numeric identifier created in the folder structure below the designated parent folder ("LIBRARIES" in your case), that identifier is linked to your Adobe ID. So provided you use the same Adobe ID on the two systems, LRCC should use the same identifier, and thus should recognise and use the same locally stored originals (obviously the location preferences must be set the same). You'd have to check it, though that should be easy to do. I just tried this. The first thing that happened was that it moved 229 originals in the LRCC lib on the MBP to the external T5. The MBP is set not to store originals but these were there because I had to download and import them directly to the MBP while away from base. So that part was good! But then it started syncing all 70,000, and I stopped it. I don't want a situation where every time I move the T5 external with the originals from one computer to the other it syncs all 70,000 again. ...or would it have been a once only occurrence? I assume that the 229 originals would eventually have been removed from the MBP LRCC library by the Adobe space management? They had been already been uploaded to the cloud and downloaded to the iMac, where they showed the original was stored locally. It said it was moving 229 originals off the MBP to the T5, but in practice it would have discovered they were already there, so all it did was delete them from the MBP (confirmed by looking at Originals in library package contents.....now zero). Thanks for any comment.
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