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mattdonders | December 17, 2008 08:44 PM | in Cameras

How could I use Adobe Lightroom on a laptop, while still keeping my changes in my main desktop library?

Probably a basic question, but an important one for me nonetheless.

I am heading to Las Vegas this week for 5 days and will be bringing my new laptop with me that I have loaded Adobe Lightroom on. I use Adobe Lightroom on my desktop with a primary catalog with most of my pictures. While I am in Vegas I plan on doing some editing at night in my downtime on my secondary laptop.

My question is that when I come home if I want to move the images into my main Lightroom library, can I just transfer the folder tree into my hierarchy on my desktop hard drive and then import from disk from Lightroom? Will that keep my changes that I made on my secondary laptop? And is there any possibility of keeping the history of changes made as well? If so, what steps will I need to follow to accomplish this.

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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | poindexter | December 18, 2008 02:55 AM

The best thing I have found for this type of thing is Dropbox. I use it with a password manager (keypass), and while its not the same program as you are talking about, the concept is the same. So what I did is installed dropbox on all of my computers and placed the library for keypass into the shared folder. This way, no matter what computer I am on, I am always working off the same library. And any changes I make are reflected on the other computers as soon as they get an internet connection. Check out the links for further explanation.

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http://lifehacker.com/397778/dropbox-syncs-and-backs-up-files-between-compu...\

http://lifehacker.com/5063176/how-to-use-dropbox-as-the-ultimate-password-s...

http://www.getdropbox.com/

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