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Coordinating between two computers

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Lightroom Classic Version 9.4
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I use LR Classic on two desktop computers, in different locations. Initially, I imported the catalog from the first computer to the other computer, so I had two identical catalogs. But things being what they are these days, I'm not going out very much to take new photos, so I'm spending most of my photography time going back through my libraries and editing old photos. I do this in both locations. So now I have two catalogs that started out as identical but no longer are. Is there an easy way to mesh the two?

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
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I should add that some of the images I work on (on both computers) wind up as TIFF files (because I go to Photoshop or one of the Nik plug-ins). Is there an easy way to bring those with me to the other computer (without duplicating all of the images in the catalog)?
 
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I switch often between my desktop and my laptop. I use a paid utility called Goodsync to synchronize all kinds of files between the two, not just LR. The key to making this approach work is a rigid discipline about always synchronizing whenever I am going to switch systems.
 
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Do you just sync the catalog using this software. This would allow you to run lightroom classic using the previews, right?
 
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dabsond said:
Do you just sync the catalog using this software. This would allow you to run lightroom classic using the previews, right?
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I sync the catalog AND the user settings. Catalog is in D:\Photo\Catalog, and user settings are in C:\Users\phil\AppData\Roaming\Adobe . There are three Lightroom sub-folders that I synchronize.
 
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