John Cicchine
Active Member
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2016
- Messages
- 166
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Lightroom Version Number
- 5.7
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
I am a U.S. Citizen currently residing in the Philippines. It's quite nice here but the electrical power is not very reliable and the power gets pulled on me often without any prior warning. When this happens while I am working on photos in Lightroom it causes problems for my Catalog. LR then has to repair my Catalog which takes time not just for the repair but as I am doing now I need to build Smart Previews for all of my 100,000+ photos. What I was wondering is can I create a new seperate Catalog with a folder that I can import new photos into and work on them there so that if the power is cut only that Catalog will need repair then when I am finished working on the photos transfer them to my main Catalog with all the same metadata as if I worked on them in the main Catalog? Also if I can do that would it be better to work on a seperate external Hard Drive so that the power will not be cut on the Hard Drive that contains my regular Catalog? I think that would be better but I am open to any and all suggestions. Thank You all for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.
John
John