Photo Reference in Office over Network?

Hello,
We are a landscape design company and have thousands of pictures of our jobs that we want to organize for reference.
At this point, we have all the pictures on our local server in a folder that is available to everyone. We want our manager to go through and categorize all of the photos, so the designers can go back and look at any category or multiple of categories for reference.
One concern is that one of the designers could easily delete a category which would instantly delete the hours and hours of work put into categorizing.
What would be the best method to go about this?

Hi Tyler,
The LR catalog must be local, that is it must be on a local computer or an external hard drive that is connected directly to that computer. The catalog cannot be on a network drive. The LR software must be on the local computer too of course. The photographs themselves can be on a network. Of course if any user moves those photographs or changes them, LR will lose track of them or the changes. Usually people have wanted the catalog accessible from several computers rather than just the photographs. Unfortunately, LR is not able to do that, and it is likely not to happen for a good length of time. One issue that some users have found is that network access can really slow down LR in some situations, even with one only computer ever accessing those images. It is possible to have the images on the network and have duplicate catalogs with one on each computer. This would work if you have a stable environment where you aren't adding images all of the time and only one user has the "master catalog". Any changes to the "master catalog" would then have to be given to the other computers by creating a duplicate catalog and replacing the old catalog on each computer. This could be pretty cumbersome to maintain correctly. If you did this, you could lock the images through the computer OS and make them read only to prevent others from deleting them or making changes once you got everything set. Even if a user changed their copy of the catalog, the master catalog would overwrite it on that computer during the next "update" cycle.
The other way is to put the images and the catalog on a single external hard drive and pass it around as needed to other users. Depending on your workflow, this could be pretty cumbersome too as well as not practical in many situations.
You could download a free 30-day trial of LR and play with it and see if it would work for you. If you do this, be sure to set up a set of duplicate images to play with and don't work on your original images.
John
John G. Blair Studio

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