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Macbook Pro 15" with Snow Leopard instead of Macbook Air with Mavericks. However I needed to use LR4.4 as LR5 needs 10.7.x (Lion) or above.
Got the same error as on the Macbook Air testing when trying to access the LR4cat file over the network that is on my MacPro via USB link.
So I have tested with a local copy of the catalog which I copied from the USB drive attached to the MacPro over the network to the Macbook Pro disk and located on my Desktop.
This works no problem. This is expected behaviour.
I guess this inability to work over a network mapped drive is a design issue. Adobe have designed it this way as it improves the speed of LR in its handling of editing.
If the cat file was remotely located then there can be big latency (lack of responsiveness) effects and then loss of speed in the application while it waits for the saving of metadata and edit changes and also if the network link is lost then all changes would be lost.
So outcome of these tests is that the Catalog file needs to be local or on a USB drive directly attached to the machine you are working on.
If you want to use the same file then you need to use a mechanism such as DropBox or iCloud synchronisation features.
For me this wont work (as I dont want to use slow internet connections for synchronisation) so I will write some scripts that copy the file between machines or use GoodSync to make sure that the file in use is the latest.
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