maintaining a lightroom library on multiple computers?

I currently work between 3 computers on a regular basis. I have a laptop, a vista computer, and a mac. I use lightroom on all of them, but they each have their own library. I would like to figure out a way to store, and be able to access ALL photos from all libraries, on all of the computers.

Without resorting to yet another external drive, is there a better way I can go about this?

Can you not share the folders, presuming all computers are on the same home network. Then can you not just have the one library on one PC with lightroom on the other two pointing to that shared folder/library... Not tried it myself though...

Or "export as catalog", then import in the next. You'd need to copy the raw files over as well

producerism wrote in post #4875612
be able to access ALL photos from all libraries, on all of the computers.

I don't think there is an easy an seamless way of doing what you want. I think that Rene has given the right answer.

yikes, that seems daunting.

Unfort. sharing the folders on a network is not an option - since I have computers in different places most of the time (one at work, one at home, one on the road).

I have found a few solutions, although none are really an all-in-one solution.

The closest I've come to so far is called FolderShare

https://www.foldershar​e.com/

I would really love to find a service like Mozy, but not for backup, but for synchronizing computers AND for backup. I may just setup a subversion database... although it's not exactly made for this purpose.

producerism wrote in post #4878208
yikes, that seems daunting.

Unfort. sharing the folders on a network is not an option - since I have computers in different places most of the time (one at work, one at home, one on the road).

I have found a few solutions, although none are really an all-in-one solution.

The closest I've come to so far is called FolderShare

https://www.foldershar​e.com/

I would really love to find a service like Mozy, but not for backup, but for synchronizing computers AND for backup. I may just setup a subversion database... although it's not exactly made for this purpose.

That's probably your best bet; although time consuming.
I have the same problem and use an external hard drive and a thumb drive if I don't want to lug the external,, you can get an 8gb thumb drive for $60 and I usually don't deal with more pictures than that in a day...