braver
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- Jul 12, 2015
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I'd love to assign stars and set/unset flag/reject on newly ingested collections on my laptop, while my home desktop hosts the permanent setup. I've read both LR5 and LR6 FAQ book chapters on it, and LR6 doesn't seem to consider a new option of LR Mobile. Here's my setup and proposal.
I use a single main catalog, upgrading it since February 2007, 1-beta, introduced to it by Peter Krogh in his first Santa Fe DAM course. At 165K pics the catalog it above 900GB, with
-- 3GB catalog itself
-- 170 GB Smart Previews (for all pics)
-- 710 GB Previews (with Full Size previews for all pics)
-- 35 GB Mobile Uploads (syncing family iPhones to desktop constantly, hence desktop always up and at home as the mothership)
Here's my ingestion process: I use ImageIngester and create a folder for each SD card I ingest. I use 16GB cards deliberately so that they are ingested often. Once a new card is ingested, I immediately create a synced collection for it. The mothership being a desktop, it soon uploads it, so I can see it from all iOS devices next day.
I just got a very small portable 1TB SSD and am wondering about the following idea.
What if I sync the catalog to that portable drive regularly, carry it with me, connect to the laptop when I feel like star ranking and flagging pics. Since the portable catalog is an exact mirror of the mothership after sync, synced collections are the same. I'd expect that stars and flags will get into Adobe Cloud and from there will be pulled back on the mothership.
An alternative is to keep the catalog and Smart Previews on DropBox (with full previews excluded from sync) and do same starring/flagging. Presumably the synced collections will do the same but I'm not sure about both laptop and mothership catalogs being effectively synced via LR Mobile and DropBox. With a separate laptop mirror I know that at least it's initiating the cloud sync via LR Mobile only.
What do you guys think before I go try it out?
A+ (Alexy)
I use a single main catalog, upgrading it since February 2007, 1-beta, introduced to it by Peter Krogh in his first Santa Fe DAM course. At 165K pics the catalog it above 900GB, with
-- 3GB catalog itself
-- 170 GB Smart Previews (for all pics)
-- 710 GB Previews (with Full Size previews for all pics)
-- 35 GB Mobile Uploads (syncing family iPhones to desktop constantly, hence desktop always up and at home as the mothership)
Here's my ingestion process: I use ImageIngester and create a folder for each SD card I ingest. I use 16GB cards deliberately so that they are ingested often. Once a new card is ingested, I immediately create a synced collection for it. The mothership being a desktop, it soon uploads it, so I can see it from all iOS devices next day.
I just got a very small portable 1TB SSD and am wondering about the following idea.
What if I sync the catalog to that portable drive regularly, carry it with me, connect to the laptop when I feel like star ranking and flagging pics. Since the portable catalog is an exact mirror of the mothership after sync, synced collections are the same. I'd expect that stars and flags will get into Adobe Cloud and from there will be pulled back on the mothership.
An alternative is to keep the catalog and Smart Previews on DropBox (with full previews excluded from sync) and do same starring/flagging. Presumably the synced collections will do the same but I'm not sure about both laptop and mothership catalogs being effectively synced via LR Mobile and DropBox. With a separate laptop mirror I know that at least it's initiating the cloud sync via LR Mobile only.
What do you guys think before I go try it out?
A+ (Alexy)