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Please critique this setup. I've been considering this b/c I have had images stored to both computers but would prefer that one storage drive be known to contain all of my work; as it is, I can't recall if certain photos are on one or the other computer and don't want to mirror the collections on two computers.
I have LR2 on a MBP & iMac and have some photos already imported to their respective drives but have been considering to change my arrangement such that all photos are imported to one external drive which would be shared between the two computers (small portable drive). I also have a larger external drive always attached to the imac to be used as a backup copy location.
My idea was to have one, master repository of all my photos (the small port. drive) but work on them either on the MBP or iMac depending if I am home or not. My understanding is that LR can allow you to work on the images (a preview really) even though the drive containing the images isn't attached but then 'apply' the changes when the drive is next connected.
Does this sound reasonable or not? Please recommend variations, improvements etc or point me to other posts with similar arrangements.
thanks

Your proposal will work just fine. I use a Windows desktop and a Mac laptop and much the same set up as you. If you propose on using the images off line and also want the speed benefits of having the actual catlog and preview files on an internal drive, then it does mean maintaining two catalogs. One on the desktop and one on the laptop, both linked to the images on the external drive. In order to keep the two catalogs in sync in relation to the development settings you need to connect the external drive and write the data to file and then sync this when connecting to the other computer...which is how I do it usually. This means that each catalog can have different collections but the same process settings for all the files. If you use smart collections (as I do) these can be exported and then loaded so these remain in sync, but for ordinary collections you have to create these on both catalogs.
Alternatively you can have a single catalog on the external drive. This can slow things down a bit and means you must always have the external drive connected.
You can also export as catlog to the external drive from the desktop.

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