braver
Member
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2015
- Messages
- 58
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version Number
- 7.5
- Operating System
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- iOS
I've been generating 1:1 Previews always, per Peter Krogh (and embedded full-size previews into DNGs as I convert to it). Now I have a dedicated SSD RAID 5 array for the catalog connected to the desktop iMac Pro, which uses about 2.5TB -- 6GB for the catalog itself, 2.2TB for Previews and 0.3TB for Smart Previews. I also use SSD RAID arrays for RAW ingestion (virgin backups) and main photos (DNG conversions). Backups go to HDD RAID arrays and tape and everything is whirring along beautifully.
I'd like to rate/organize/develop/publish from the laptop though, sometimes. I'm very good with tooling so could rsync the catalog itself back and forth without hopefully losing the latest edits. That will require I leave the 1:1 Previews on the RAID while I sync only Smart Previews to the MacBook Pro (got 2TB of SSD so fits a lot but not all).
The question is, say I only copy Smart Previews on MBP. Do I need to care about syncing the previews back to the iMac? I pride myself for iMac having Smart Previews and 1:1 Previews for every main photo. But I'm not worried if some previews are out of sync with the main image edits. I don't want preview files to collide though or become somehow duplicated. Their subdirectories are opaque, with hexadecimal names, and it's not clear to me how I can easily verify, using the command-line tools, whether a preview directory is newer or older or is OK. Is it enough to move the catalog around and let previews be not to inflict damage on the overall catalog directory eventually?
For publishing, only one catalog can be synced with Lr Mobile, and I have that going to iMac of course that's always on and a dedicated RAID array is receiving those. So I'm not going to have the visiting MBP catalog synced. But If I want to publish from the laptop, is it OK to do so from the visiting catalog? Say to SmugMug/500px/Facebook, etc.? What will happen to the published status, and will the iMac pick up where I left it on the MBP once I rsync the catalog file itself back from the MBP to iMac?
I'd like to rate/organize/develop/publish from the laptop though, sometimes. I'm very good with tooling so could rsync the catalog itself back and forth without hopefully losing the latest edits. That will require I leave the 1:1 Previews on the RAID while I sync only Smart Previews to the MacBook Pro (got 2TB of SSD so fits a lot but not all).
The question is, say I only copy Smart Previews on MBP. Do I need to care about syncing the previews back to the iMac? I pride myself for iMac having Smart Previews and 1:1 Previews for every main photo. But I'm not worried if some previews are out of sync with the main image edits. I don't want preview files to collide though or become somehow duplicated. Their subdirectories are opaque, with hexadecimal names, and it's not clear to me how I can easily verify, using the command-line tools, whether a preview directory is newer or older or is OK. Is it enough to move the catalog around and let previews be not to inflict damage on the overall catalog directory eventually?
For publishing, only one catalog can be synced with Lr Mobile, and I have that going to iMac of course that's always on and a dedicated RAID array is receiving those. So I'm not going to have the visiting MBP catalog synced. But If I want to publish from the laptop, is it OK to do so from the visiting catalog? Say to SmugMug/500px/Facebook, etc.? What will happen to the published status, and will the iMac pick up where I left it on the MBP once I rsync the catalog file itself back from the MBP to iMac?