Tairuup
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- Oct 5, 2018
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- Lightroom Experience
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- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom CC for Mac v1.5
- Operating System
- Windows 10
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
I'm currently trialling the Photography Plan and plan to opt for the 20GB of storage plan. I no longer amass thousands of images per month so in terms of the images I need access to for viewing / editing on a daily basis, my needs are quite modest and 20GB will be more than enough cloud storage for me.
I do however have around 60GB of images that I rarely, if ever, access but don't want to delete forever. These images I prefer to keep locally with back up. They are all on a Mac in Aperture / Photos. I am currently also planning my move away from all things Apple (except for an iPad) so have a need to migrate my photos towards something which is not platform specific.
I'm thinking of 2, maybe 3, potential approaches:
1) Use LRCC for the 'live' photos and LRCC Classic for the 60GB of archived photos. Only issue I see with that is that it's using two apps, both with, from what I gather, slightly different approaches to library structure. It's probably my preferred option though as it splits the two 'catalogues' nicely. I need to be sure that when I create the library in Classic, and store it on an external HDD (pending my purchase of a Windows machine), that Windows will be able to read the files created on a Mac. The other things I need to explore is, as images on LRCC enter the 'archived' arena, can they be downloaded from and imported to Classic without losing metadata, keywords, captions and ratings.
2) The other option that I need to research is using LRCC for everything IF it's possible to have LRCC access both the live catalogue and the 60GB archive catalogue but the latter ONLY from an external HDD. If this were even possible I'd need to Import the archive stuff folder by folder, sort them all out, then drop them back down and out to an SSD, deleting anything they leave behind from my cloud data storage. Bonus of this is that it needs me to only use one app, and I find LRCC very user friendly (Classic, less so) and it also means all images and related data are being managed by the same app with the same approach to library and metadata / filing management.
I did also contemplate opting for just the LRCC 1TB plan to make everything a WHOLE lot easier. Everything all in one place, using the same app, all in full size images, editable across multiple devices. I still haven't ruled that option out. Problem is I don't really need that 60GB of images in the cloud (in fact after the ruthless cull I intend to do it might actually be a lot less than that) and, the (possibly) bigger problem in that while I don't edit extensively these days, at least with the 20GB plan I get access to PS CC and LR CC Classic if I ever need them.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I do however have around 60GB of images that I rarely, if ever, access but don't want to delete forever. These images I prefer to keep locally with back up. They are all on a Mac in Aperture / Photos. I am currently also planning my move away from all things Apple (except for an iPad) so have a need to migrate my photos towards something which is not platform specific.
I'm thinking of 2, maybe 3, potential approaches:
1) Use LRCC for the 'live' photos and LRCC Classic for the 60GB of archived photos. Only issue I see with that is that it's using two apps, both with, from what I gather, slightly different approaches to library structure. It's probably my preferred option though as it splits the two 'catalogues' nicely. I need to be sure that when I create the library in Classic, and store it on an external HDD (pending my purchase of a Windows machine), that Windows will be able to read the files created on a Mac. The other things I need to explore is, as images on LRCC enter the 'archived' arena, can they be downloaded from and imported to Classic without losing metadata, keywords, captions and ratings.
2) The other option that I need to research is using LRCC for everything IF it's possible to have LRCC access both the live catalogue and the 60GB archive catalogue but the latter ONLY from an external HDD. If this were even possible I'd need to Import the archive stuff folder by folder, sort them all out, then drop them back down and out to an SSD, deleting anything they leave behind from my cloud data storage. Bonus of this is that it needs me to only use one app, and I find LRCC very user friendly (Classic, less so) and it also means all images and related data are being managed by the same app with the same approach to library and metadata / filing management.
I did also contemplate opting for just the LRCC 1TB plan to make everything a WHOLE lot easier. Everything all in one place, using the same app, all in full size images, editable across multiple devices. I still haven't ruled that option out. Problem is I don't really need that 60GB of images in the cloud (in fact after the ruthless cull I intend to do it might actually be a lot less than that) and, the (possibly) bigger problem in that while I don't edit extensively these days, at least with the 20GB plan I get access to PS CC and LR CC Classic if I ever need them.
Any thoughts appreciated.