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Stefan Aalten-Voogd
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- North Berwick, UK
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- Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [1186149]
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- Windows 10
Hi,
I have a question about my specific setup and whether Lightroom sync and OneDrive can work together.
My wife and I each have Windows laptops and OneDrive accounts. We use shared folders on OneDrive to share files between us. Nominally I have all the "master" photographs (350GB, 90,000 photographs, adding 4,000 photographs/month, in a single LR catalog of 630MB ) and my wife has all the "master" music but it's a moot point really as we both have full access to the folders we share with one another. In effect we have one large cloud storage area we share.
I think of it this way:
1) Let's say I make a change locally to my OneDrive folder (add/edit/delete a photograph)
2) When I'm next online the change is sync'ed to my OneDrive cloud storage
3) Via the shared folder feature the change is then sync'ed to my wife's OneDrive cloud storage (i.e. as a pointer, not as a duplicate file)
4) When my wife is next online the change is then sync'd to her local OneDrive folder.
And of course vice versa. There may be periods while we're not online but each may be making changes to our locally held photographs. We are able to agree that we won't both be working on the same photographs but there will be changes coming from both sides, e.g. I may work on the "2015 pictures" and my wife may work on the "2016 pictures".
This setup means there are always three locations where a given photograph is stored:
1) my local storage,
2) my OneDrive cloud storage (but not my wife's OneDrive cloud storage, as that only has a pointer to the file, not a copy of it) and
3) my wife's local storage.
I have Lightroom Classic CC on my laptop, but we have not yet installed LR Classic CC on my wife's laptop. I have not used Lightroom CC yet but am wondering whether that might be the solution to our problem: how can we use Lightroom in a multi-user scenario, with each of us having full access to all photographs and able to make changes which are sync'd to the other's system? How does Lightroom CC fit with OneDrive? We're reliant on the OneDrive shared folders feature as explained above. Clearly the catalog (630MB) is too big to bounce around every time one of us makes a change!
Many thanks for any insights and advice!
Stefan
I have a question about my specific setup and whether Lightroom sync and OneDrive can work together.
My wife and I each have Windows laptops and OneDrive accounts. We use shared folders on OneDrive to share files between us. Nominally I have all the "master" photographs (350GB, 90,000 photographs, adding 4,000 photographs/month, in a single LR catalog of 630MB ) and my wife has all the "master" music but it's a moot point really as we both have full access to the folders we share with one another. In effect we have one large cloud storage area we share.
I think of it this way:
1) Let's say I make a change locally to my OneDrive folder (add/edit/delete a photograph)
2) When I'm next online the change is sync'ed to my OneDrive cloud storage
3) Via the shared folder feature the change is then sync'ed to my wife's OneDrive cloud storage (i.e. as a pointer, not as a duplicate file)
4) When my wife is next online the change is then sync'd to her local OneDrive folder.
And of course vice versa. There may be periods while we're not online but each may be making changes to our locally held photographs. We are able to agree that we won't both be working on the same photographs but there will be changes coming from both sides, e.g. I may work on the "2015 pictures" and my wife may work on the "2016 pictures".
This setup means there are always three locations where a given photograph is stored:
1) my local storage,
2) my OneDrive cloud storage (but not my wife's OneDrive cloud storage, as that only has a pointer to the file, not a copy of it) and
3) my wife's local storage.
I have Lightroom Classic CC on my laptop, but we have not yet installed LR Classic CC on my wife's laptop. I have not used Lightroom CC yet but am wondering whether that might be the solution to our problem: how can we use Lightroom in a multi-user scenario, with each of us having full access to all photographs and able to make changes which are sync'd to the other's system? How does Lightroom CC fit with OneDrive? We're reliant on the OneDrive shared folders feature as explained above. Clearly the catalog (630MB) is too big to bounce around every time one of us makes a change!
Many thanks for any insights and advice!
Stefan
