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Networking
Lightroom

Categories: Tips &

Tricks

How to make
Lightroom a net-
workable
application by
storing it in the
cloud.

Smart workaround if
your planning to
access the same Lightroom catalog from multiple machines. We have set this up in our
own office and it works beautifully on 3 iMac’s and a MacBook Pro, the only limitation is
that only one computer can have the catalog open at a time and you will need to mount
the drive with your images for the additional computers.

1. Sign up for a free Dropbox account. Here is direct link to sign up to get a free 2GB
Dropbox account www.dropbox.com.

2. Download and install the Dropbox application for your platform/operating system on all
computers where you want to share your Lightroom catalogs. Check the box ‘Enable
LAN sync’ in the preferences panel to take advantage of your home network speed
syncing the Dropbox files to your other networked computers.

3. Either create a new Lightroom catalog, in a new folder in your Dropbox, or move an
excising catalog there. We suggest using the minimal previews in the catalog settings,
for this method to save syncing time and Dropbox space.
if you don’t know where your Lightroom catalogs are click Lightroom on the top menu
bar and click ‘catalog Settings’. On top of the information panel you can see the path,
click ‘Show’ and Lightroom will open the folder for you.

4. Now wait for the catalog to sync through Dropbox to your other computers. When
synced (you will know that the sync is finished, when folder has a green tick on it), open
the catalog in Lightroom on the second computer, You now need to tell Lightroom where
your images are, you will see question marks on your archives in the left side panel,
meaning missing folder or files, to direct Lightroom to the right location, right click the
top folder in your Lightroom archive on the left side panel in the Library view [G], click
find missing folder and locate your photo archives on your network and click ok. If you
can’t find your image drive or folder on then network you probably need to share it on the
network first. (Right click on your image archive folder or drive, and tick share on
network)

5. And just as a reminder, always close the Lightroom catalog on one computer before
accessing it on the other. Check in your Dropbox folder that it has the green check
before opening just to be safe you got the latest updates synced as well. Lightroom
does have a safety feature with .lock files so your files and catalog will be safe even if
you manage to forget. We have couple times, no harm done.

Now here is something else you can do to speed up your Dropbox synchronized Adobe
Lightroom catalogs! This feature removes the preview data from syncing, resulting in a
great deal less syncing time, and lots more space for your catalogs, which is handy if
your using the 2gb free version on DropBox. Lightroom will rebuild the new previews
much faster in the destination ends rather than syncing all the preview data through the
cloud.

Dropbox Selective Sync.

1. Access Dropbox Preferences by clicking the blue Dropbox icon in your menu bar.

2. In the preferences panel go to the Advanced tab and click Change Settings for
Selective Sync.

3. Click Switch to Advance View at the bottom of the dialog window.

4. When in Advanced View select your Lightroom catalog folder and uncheck the .lrdata
folder, this is where your previews are stored. By un-checking you stop the syncing of
these previews and only sync the catalog resulting in much quicker syncing! Press the
update button to confirm.

5. Press update a second time; now repeat this process in your Dropbox preferences on
your other computers sharing this Lightroom catalog.

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