Keeping Lightroom 5 on an external hard drive.

I'd like to have access to my photos and catalog from both my laptop and my desktop computers. Will this work if I put Lightroom 5 on an external hard drive?

You need to install Lightroom 5 on both computers, and then move the photos and the catalog file to the external HD. If the photos are not currently on the external HD, you can move them as described here: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm
For this to work properly on Windows, when you connect the external HD, it must have the same drive letter on both computer.

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