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Catalogs Installing Lightroom Classic CC on 2nd computer

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I have Lightroom Classic CC installed on a desktop computer. My catalog and pictures are on an external hard drive. In preparation for a photography workshop, I plan to connect the external hard drive to my laptop for access to the catalog. How do I proceed installing Lightroom Classic CC for the first time on the laptop? Do I create another catalog? Should the
external hard drive be connect to the laptop during the install?
 
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You need to install Adobe Creative Cloud App Manager on the second computer. From the Apps tab, it will install for you the apps in your plan. The first time you open LR in the laptop it will create a new empty catalog. You can ignore this and delete it later. Instead connect the EHD (if you haven't already) and navigate to your master catalog on the EHD and open it with LR.
 
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Don't forget that if you have profiles, presets and similar "stuff" you may need to copy it to the new computer as well if you want the same environment. Here's an article with locations for such files, and you would just copy between computers once (or keep them synchronized if you plan to do this over time). It's a real pain of lightroom that so much of it gets stored outside the catalog and must be manually handled.

Which Lightroom files do I need to back up? | The Lightroom Queen
 
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