Michael Bateman
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Lightroom Catalogs have to be on a local volume of course. But referenced images can go on a network drive, which is perfect when you have a lot of RAW images, etc. For my part, I sometimes run into trouble because the volume always gets mounted as "home" or "home-1" etc. which can be a problem if you ever connect to more than one NAS as I often do.
I've discovered a great trick on my Mac with something called autofs. Here is a good article on how to keep network volumes mounted using autofs. This works great with my existing catalog images. I can give the network volume a unique name and it appears in a folder called "servers" in my home directory. Lightroom never has trouble finding it.
...except if I try to import from a folder on the share!
....or if I try to use a folder on the share as a destination for an import!
.....or if I try to browse a folder in the share using Bridge!
Yeah, for some reason my Adobe products just don't like it when I mount network folders this way - and I would love to be wrong about that! Anyone?
Most of you probably don't have a "NAS Centric" workflow like me and rely more on externally mounted USB 3 and Thunderbolt Drives for hot and warm projects, maybe using a NAS for cold storage. (Just remember kids, NAS is not Backup, But can be used as part of an overall backup strategy - but I digress!)
I should probably re-think my workflow. But I just love my Canon 7D with the Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E7A. It does a great job of putting all the files from the camera straight onto the NAS where I can use shell scripts to automate my workflow, renaming files, backing them up, etc.
But in the meantime I thought I would reach out here and see what everyone else does. I am new to the forum; this is my first post. Anyone else here use a NAS with LightRoom? Any ideas for me? I have two: A Synology DS1513+ and a Qnap TVS-871T.
In any event, thanks for reading my post to anyone who has made it this far!
-Michael
I've discovered a great trick on my Mac with something called autofs. Here is a good article on how to keep network volumes mounted using autofs. This works great with my existing catalog images. I can give the network volume a unique name and it appears in a folder called "servers" in my home directory. Lightroom never has trouble finding it.
...except if I try to import from a folder on the share!
....or if I try to use a folder on the share as a destination for an import!
.....or if I try to browse a folder in the share using Bridge!
Yeah, for some reason my Adobe products just don't like it when I mount network folders this way - and I would love to be wrong about that! Anyone?
Most of you probably don't have a "NAS Centric" workflow like me and rely more on externally mounted USB 3 and Thunderbolt Drives for hot and warm projects, maybe using a NAS for cold storage. (Just remember kids, NAS is not Backup, But can be used as part of an overall backup strategy - but I digress!)
I should probably re-think my workflow. But I just love my Canon 7D with the Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E7A. It does a great job of putting all the files from the camera straight onto the NAS where I can use shell scripts to automate my workflow, renaming files, backing them up, etc.
But in the meantime I thought I would reach out here and see what everyone else does. I am new to the forum; this is my first post. Anyone else here use a NAS with LightRoom? Any ideas for me? I have two: A Synology DS1513+ and a Qnap TVS-871T.
In any event, thanks for reading my post to anyone who has made it this far!
-Michael