Sure! I could also put the images from my most current shoot in the Dropbox folder for a true "work anywhere" scenario. The images themselves (except for the most current shoot/work in progress) are on the server, all I have to do is mount the server and Lightroom sees the images too. Also something else works that I wasn't sure if it would or not. I put my most frequently used Lightroom Catalogs in my Dropbox folder and I have to say that I love it! I can now go to any of my computers running Lightroom and access my catalog. I figured if my catalog is sync'd to Dropbox, then I would be able to access that catalog from any of my computers running Lightroom. That's been working out GREAT! One day it dawned upon me to try it with a Lightroom catalog. Dropbox basically became my "documents" and "pictures" folder so that I would have cloud backup and access to my documents/pictures no matter which computer or mobile device that I use. I saw the value in Dropbox long ago and signed up for their 100GB plan. What if I want to access one of those catalogs from a different computer? Networked Catalog access is not supported or recommended. That's where the problem comes into play. The catalogs themselves always remain on the laptop drive. This way if I ever need to work with or output those images again Lightroom will do so over my network to the server. Once the images are moved from the internal drive on my laptop to the server, i update the catalog with the new location of this folder of images.
Using lightroom classic and lightroom cc together mac os x#
After that the keepers are moved to my Mac OS X Server ( Drobo) where they are backed up each night to another Drobo and to the cloud via CrashPlan. My images are temporarily captured and stored on my internal hard drive of my MacBook Pro until they've been reviewed, selected, retouched, shared and delivered. I have multiple catalogs for the various kinds of photography that I do. I use Lightroom everyday as I'm always doing something with my images.