Comments on: Friday Vid. – Moving Between Laptop and Desktop

By: Martin Ericson

Martin Ericson — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:46:29 +0000

I would like to know how to implement Dropbox with Lightroom. I want to sync pictures, catalog & presets between my computers.

By: keith carter

keith carter — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:44:55 +0000

I have a dedicate external hard drive for my pictures. So I can move from machine to machine with out duping the original. I work on my pics in three different locations. I am finding it hard to keep the catalog (keywords and rating) with the hard drive and not the home drive of what ever machine I am home. It is time consuming and creates mess when it doesnt stay with the dedicated hard drive. I have not watch your video yet but I hope it solves my problem. Great program though.
P.S. Can you get them to do something about the scroll bar on the modules and libary. They are always popping up when you dont want them to. Finally, The heal circle is a great tool…but why not more than one shape…and maybe a build your own shape. Kind of like we use to do…by cutting print paper….way back when home individual dark room still existed..

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:27:37 +0000

I am using unison to keep mac and PC catalogs in sync. It’s a great little program for synchronising 2 directories (or whatever) and I am now running my life through it.

I had the same problem as Viktor above – the catalog from my mac would lose rotation information when loaded on the PC.

It appears that Lightroom will re-scan pictures if the timestamp on the file changes, and part of this re-scanning will reset the rotation information. It turns out that unison does not synchronise timestamp information by default (very strange). However, you need to use the ‘times’ option – I set it in my profile file with:

times=true

And voila, I can work on mac or PC perfectly (although only been a day thus far).

Unison worth checking out if you need to do this kind of thing. It’s open-source-free.

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:23:47 +0000

To Ronald,

I also have a D300s and it seems that the sharpness is not the same in LR vs. ViewNX. I know ViewNX incorporates the Picture Style, but even if I disregard that, LR2.6 shows unsharp pictures.

Odd.

To All,

It seems even with LR 3, Adobe is NOT listening about network drives. I wonder why????????? We did put a man on moon, right? So don’t tell me it is “hard”. It is IMPERATIVE this be done.

By: Ronald Widha

Ronald Widha — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:16:32 +0000

Hey Matt, I notice you work with NEF within lightroom on the video. I found that Lightroom does inaccurate color rendering of my Nikon D300 NEF. Do you find the same issue?

Cause of this, I now always work with Capture NX first and then export to JPEG which then stored into lightroom. Not ideal

By: Dean Riggott

Dean Riggott — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:19:04 +0000

When I go to “import from catalog” and select the library that I’ve just moved to my desktop computer, it gets hung-up/stuck on “checking for duplicate photos.” The progress bar get almost halfway and then it never goes ant further.

Any ideas? Is it ok that my originals files are in multiple folders?

By: Mark Stothard

Mark Stothard — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:27:35 +0000

Great tutorial mate!

Very informative and answered a number of questions I have had for a while…well done!

Cheers,

Mark

By: bigdani

bigdani — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:03:21 +0000

To Kneedeep Says

To move photos between folders, just use the Lightroom’s folder browser just as the Finder or Windows Explorer, by dragging them to the new folder.

By doing it inside LR, it keeps track of the new location the file is in, and this is stored in the LR Catalog file, not the xmp file.

Xmp are RAW’s sidecar files. If you hit Ctrl+S on PC or ⌘S on Mac, all the image related information will be saved to the image (metadata, keywords, develop settings…) so if you open it in PS, bridge, or LR on another computer, all the work is done already.

But only on DNG’s and JPG’s. As RAW files are propietary, they’re read only, and then LR writes the data in a seidecar xml file, which is glued to the RAW, they travel together from one folder to another.

By: Viktor

Viktor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:40:43 +0000

First of all, it’s not necessary to export first. You can import from the source catalog directly and just select the appropirate files. (You should choose “Copy files to new location” in this case.)

Secondly, this process screams for automation! That’s why we use computeres in the first place, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s not easy. I use unison to keep files on my laptop and desktop the same. It usually works great (including stuff like iPhoto), but Lightroom breaks in subtle ways. Specifically Lightroom seems to lose the rotation information, ie. portrait photos get reverted to landscape. Develop settings and metadata are all there, but the orientation breaks. Anybody have a solution for this problem?

By: Brett Brewer

Brett Brewer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:11:44 +0000

Here’s how to use your Adobe Lightroom catalog directly over a network share without wasting time with all the exporting and copying of things back and forth described in the above methods. This method will trick lightroom into thinking your network disk is local and you can then use the catalog over the network.

http://www.brettbrewer.com/content/view/94/1/