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Laptop Catalog Strategy

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MikeCaine

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Hi

On my home desktop I have one master catalog that holds all of our photos and a workflow that I'm happy with.

I've recently bought a laptop and installed Lightroom Classic CC with the intention of processing photos while on holiday and them exporting / importing them in to my main desktop catalog when we get home.

On the laptop I've created separate catalogs for each upcoming holiday (vacation?) with the intention of doing all the work on the laptop and then once the catalog is safely imported in to my desktop I can just trash the whole catalog file on the laptop.

Is that better or worse than just having one laptop catalog and then deleting photos that have been exported and imported in to the desktop? I'm thinking that it would save recreating common keywords and other settings each time.

Would appreciate any opinion on either strategy

Kind regards

Mike
 
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It's probably easier to just have one laptop catalogue and to clean it out after each trip. On your desktop, import from another catalogue. Then, on the laptop, go to All Photographs, select them all, and delete them. You'll be ready for the next holiday.
 
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Another alternative is to copy your master catalogue onto the laptop and the smart previews folder (so you can edit images). After the trip, copy the catalogue and new images back to the main computer and, fix the image folder paths.
 
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Hadn’t thought of that. Will probably go with Hal’s suggestion and do away with separate catalogs

Thanks
 
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