lightroom catalog

should I put the lightroom catalog in my external drive?

widgetrich wrote in post #3537768
should I put the lightroom catalog in my external drive?

No. I wouldn't. Definitely not on a network drive but an external would likely be a slow bottleneck. It would of course be more than fine to backup to an external drive which is what I do. My catalog(s) is on my Data drive.

In2Photos wrote in post #3537799
No. I wouldn't. Definitely not on a network drive but an external would likely be a slow bottleneck. It would of course be more than fine to backup to an external drive which is what I do. My catalog(s) is on my Data drive.

So the LR catalog should be on the c drive....when I import from CF then import to c and backup to exteral right...janis

widgetrich wrote in post #3538394
So the LR catalog should be on the c drive....when I import from CF then import to c and backup to exteral right...janis

Yes, unless you use a seperate drive for your data from your OS like I do. Then put it on the data drive.

I keep my lightroom library on my c: drive along with my images.

I am lucky enough to have 2 PCs' in the house. The first runs LR, backs up images and catalogue every day to the second, which also backs up to an external drive. The backup runs in the background (assuming both PCs' are tuned on).

I download CF cards to first PC, and the system (with low cost software) takes care of evrything else.