KentFrazier
New Member
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2010
- Messages
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- Location
- Ogden, UT USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Beginner
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Hi all,
I'm a new Lightroom user and just received my copy of LR3 from Adobe two days ago. I've been watching video tutorials I've found on the web to help me get started. Most seem to encourage the storage of the photographs on an external HD along with the catalog, while others store the photographs on the external HD, but seem to leave the catalog in the default location. This second option seems to make the most sense to me as if you lose one of the drives you only have to recover either the photos or the catalog from backup.
I'm curious as to what folks do here before I start to import and catalog my own photographs.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on an ASUS Gamer's Republic laptop with a Seagate 5''GB portable external HD for my photos and a WD MyBook 1TB external used as backup.
Thanks,
Kent
I'm a new Lightroom user and just received my copy of LR3 from Adobe two days ago. I've been watching video tutorials I've found on the web to help me get started. Most seem to encourage the storage of the photographs on an external HD along with the catalog, while others store the photographs on the external HD, but seem to leave the catalog in the default location. This second option seems to make the most sense to me as if you lose one of the drives you only have to recover either the photos or the catalog from backup.
I'm curious as to what folks do here before I start to import and catalog my own photographs.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on an ASUS Gamer's Republic laptop with a Seagate 5''GB portable external HD for my photos and a WD MyBook 1TB external used as backup.
Thanks,
Kent