| Joined: | Thu Apr 12th, 2012 |
| Location: | Sausalito, California USA |
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I have drunk the Kool-Aid as it were and have converted all of my archives into one catalog.
I keep the catalog on dropbox so that I can use it interchangeably on my iMac and my MacBook. All of the archive files live on an external hard drive that is physically connected to the iMac. I'm able to do most of my work on the MacBook because I make smart previews of all recent files.
So why am I posting? I just can't figure out the best way to manage photos that are taken when I'm traveling – which means they are initially stored on the MacBook.
I've seen a lot of different schemes for handling this. It looks like the most common one is to create a new catalog for everything you shoot while traveling and then merge it with the mothership when you get home. This makes a certain amount of sense, but it doesn't take advantage of the way I'm using dropbox to hold my main Catalog.
I'd be very interested if anyone else here is using dropbox to hold a light room catalog and if so, how do you manage getting all the files where they should be?
One would think that at this stage of life (you know, the one where you've lost all your hair) you wouldn't still be up all night worrying about a new way to manage your photo catalog. Oh well.
Dying to hear your thoughts ...
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Tom O'Connell
-Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh