- Lightroom Version Number
- Classic 8.4.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hi. I have my lightroom classic catalog and image files on dropbox on my main computer. (I do know to give it lots of time to update before opening elsewhere to avoid corruption.)
I have a laptop that does not have a big enough hard drive to sync the dropbox files (about 1.5 TB, yes tons of images) so I have mapped my dropbox folder on the main computer to my laptop - so drive X: links to \\maincomputer\users\ecbyrt\dropbox across my local network. The reason for using the laptop at home is that I need to sort out, tag and delete the bad ones of all these images and I would like to do that in the evening while I'm watching tv instead of having to sit in my office.
In my lightroom catalog I have both my local dropbox folder and the mapped dropbox folder X:. Synchronizing dropbox images does not synchronize the X: drive.
So, I'm guessing the duplicate folder is doubling the size of my catalog and probably slowing things down.
If I mapped the dropbox location to X: on both computers and used only that folder for my files would it be an issue? I'm wondering on my main computer whether a mapped drive has to run through the router for every access and would be slower to use.
I hope that all makes sense. Thanks!
I have a laptop that does not have a big enough hard drive to sync the dropbox files (about 1.5 TB, yes tons of images) so I have mapped my dropbox folder on the main computer to my laptop - so drive X: links to \\maincomputer\users\ecbyrt\dropbox across my local network. The reason for using the laptop at home is that I need to sort out, tag and delete the bad ones of all these images and I would like to do that in the evening while I'm watching tv instead of having to sit in my office.
In my lightroom catalog I have both my local dropbox folder and the mapped dropbox folder X:. Synchronizing dropbox images does not synchronize the X: drive.
So, I'm guessing the duplicate folder is doubling the size of my catalog and probably slowing things down.
If I mapped the dropbox location to X: on both computers and used only that folder for my files would it be an issue? I'm wondering on my main computer whether a mapped drive has to run through the router for every access and would be slower to use.
I hope that all makes sense. Thanks!