Catalog on Eternal, OK?

Hi! I got a new Mac and after two weeks of dealing with question marks and exclamation points, multiple catalogs and folders everywhere...moving and consolidating files, etc., I am happy that I've now got everything neatly into folders and everything up and working wonderfully--all 500,000 photos! (I learned so much about how NOT to do things while cleaning up the mess that I made in the the first place.)
I've put my catalog (Ircat, Irdata) and photos all in one place: On a 4TB external HDD. I've cloned that disk as a backup.
My questions:
1. I've been reading that catalogs cannot be on an external drive. Is this true? I believe that mine are indeed on an external drive.
2. Should catalogs be on the computer itself instead? Are there advantages to this?
IF YES, then:
3. If I have Lightroom "Back up catalog" under "Catalog Settings/General" when I close Lightroom down, could I just use that copy (I suppose I'll have to relink question-marked folders, yes?) instead of the external catalog?
I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will tell me that having everything nice and neat on an external should be fine.

lisa_vogt wrote:
I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will tell me that having everything nice and neat on an external should be fine.
Yes, that's fine...
Ideally, you should put your catalog on a really fast drive which can be internal or external–it really doesn't matter. The catalog can NOT be put on a network attached drive however (although the images in the catalog can be on NAS).
The catalog backup can also be on any drive and as long as your images in the catalog are not moved, it should not produce a problem if you need to restore your catalog from a backup.

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