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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > Dorkroom Chat: Shooting shit, posting photos
 
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charliebravo77
Jun 11, 2003

mes posted:

Anyone primarily storing and editing their Lightroom catalogue from an external drive? I'm just trying to figure out if there's weird caveats to doing it other than slower I/O comparted to an internal SSD.

I had to clean install Windows the other day on my primary machine and it made me realize that the only data that isn't primarily in the cloud for me are all my photos. I think I may go back to only having a single laptop in the future and the cost for additional SSD space is usually a killer.

I keep the catalog on my laptop and actively edit from the SSD. When I'm done with a set of photos I'll move them to an external drive within Lightroom (so it knows where the files are). Keeps SSD space usage down and for stuff I'm actively working on I get the speed benefits.

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