A couple Lightroom 3 questions

1). I just installed LR3 onto a second computer. How do you manage sharing the catalogue etc. between your desktop and laptop?

2). I seem to have lost the ability to sort by star or flag rating. It's not showing up on the toolbar. Can anybody help me resetting it or adding it back?

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Geno, a couple options. First, you should know that Lightroom is not designed to be "shared" over a network. So to share it between two computers, you have to transfer the catalog settings. One way to do this is to have your catalog on an external drive that is not a "network drive" and move the drive between computers. Or, you can save your metadata to a "sidecar" xmp file and then read the metadata on the other computer. The problem with this approach is that not everything translates over, Collections don't and I don't think flags do either. So, what I'd suggest is copying over your catalog folder when you are ready to switch and then copying back. It's a hassle, but I don't know how else to get all the functions/settings properly moved.

tonylong wrote in post #11358572
have your catalog on an external drive that is not a "network drive" and move the drive between computers.

It looks like that's what I'm going to be doing.

Still can't figure out why the sort by rating/flag bar vanished though. I have it back but it's at the top of the images as opposed to the bottom.

geno.ca wrote in post #11372674
It looks like that's what I'm going to be doing.

Still can't figure out why the sort by rating/flag bar vanished though. I have it back but it's at the top of the images as opposed to the bottom.

Huh -- likely your view options are different -- poke around the Vew menu and choose View Options then poke around there. Also there are Toolbar options.

If you open Help and search for "view ratings" there is a section with that title (you may need to click a few times) and they lay out some alternatives there).