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I recently moved all my photos onto a NAS. But I'd like to be able to access them via Lightroom using two PCs - my big desktop and my laptop. How best do I go about this?
Currently my Lightroom catalogue is on the desktop PC. My inclination is to synch that with a cloud service such as DropBox, and then set up another synch between DropBox and the laptop. Then I'd have copies of the catalogue on both PCs, and any changes I made using one of them would percolate through to the other.
Would that work? I think it should. It's basically what I do for work, whereby some important files are stored in DropBox and synched to both my office PC and my laptop. (I don't need to be able to switch from one PC to the other quickly, so I can cope with synchronisation being non-instantaneous.)
Or maybe I should just put the catalogue on the NAS too. I believe I can't put the catalogue on a mapped network drive. But I think I ought to be able to use the QNAP synch utility (QSync), which which works like DropBox. The synch folder would be on my C: drive, so I'd have thought Lightroom would be happy with a catalogue there.
Any advice / recommendations? Anything important that I've overlooked?
Currently my Lightroom catalogue is on the desktop PC. My inclination is to synch that with a cloud service such as DropBox, and then set up another synch between DropBox and the laptop. Then I'd have copies of the catalogue on both PCs, and any changes I made using one of them would percolate through to the other.
Would that work? I think it should. It's basically what I do for work, whereby some important files are stored in DropBox and synched to both my office PC and my laptop. (I don't need to be able to switch from one PC to the other quickly, so I can cope with synchronisation being non-instantaneous.)
Or maybe I should just put the catalogue on the NAS too. I believe I can't put the catalogue on a mapped network drive. But I think I ought to be able to use the QNAP synch utility (QSync), which which works like DropBox. The synch folder would be on my C: drive, so I'd have thought Lightroom would be happy with a catalogue there.
Any advice / recommendations? Anything important that I've overlooked?