Lightroom 5 with external hard drive - Mac

[justice_chaparro]

I just recently purchased a Macbook pro, Lightroom 5,

and a 2tb external hard drive for my wife. I myself have a

PC and use CS6 (which is installed onto my C drive) with

an external hard drive to import my pictures to from my

camera. I am able to open, edit, and save the edited

images all from the external hard drive. The pictures

never get saved to my PC.

 

I tried to do this with the Macbook/Lightroom setup,

importing the pictures from my camera to the external

hard drive using Lightroom, but Lightroom tells me that

the file could not be found. The thumbnail shows up, but

when I actually click on the picture it is nowhere to be

found. I believe the reason is that Lightroom is looking in

the wrong location for the catalog, rather than where the

images are actually located.

 

My question is: How do I achieve this with Lightroom and

her Macbook? Is it possible to change the catalog

location of Lightroom to a folder within the external hard

drive? I do not want the pictures ever being saved to the

internal ssd as it is only 128gb. Thank you!

[digitaldog]

<p>Should work exactly the same on the Mac. Put catalog and images on external drive, move that to any machine (Mac or Windows), the catalog should reference all the images on that drive or elsewhere if cataloged. If you don't want the images saved to the internal SSD, don't put them there. </p>

[justice_chaparro]

The problem is that the Lightroom catalog is defaulting

to the ssd, not the external drive. This is the case even

when I import to the external hard drive using

Lightroom's import system.

[EricM]

<blockquote>

<p>Is it possible to change the catalog location of Lightroom to a folder within the external hard drive?</p>

</blockquote>

<p>In Finder, move or copy the catalog from it's default location on your ssd, over to the external drive. Then open Lr, and go File/Open Catalog and navigate to the external drive and the catalog.</p>

[digitaldog]

<blockquote>

<p>The problem is that the Lightroom catalog is defaulting to the ssd, not the external drive.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>You can set how LR opens catalogs from <em>Preferences>General</em> area. You can load the catalog/path to always open too. Or double click on said catalog on drive, it will launch and open in that catalog.</p>

[EricBoehm]

<p>Is the external drive formatted for Mac? If it is (as many are when new) formatted for NTFS (Windows), you can read from it but not write to it. Can you save files to the drive from elsewhere on the Mac?</p>

[Uhooru]

 

 

<blockquote>

<p>You can set how LR opens catalogs from <em>Preferences>General</em> area. You can load the catalog/path to always open too. Or double click on said catalog on drive, it will launch and open in that catalog.</p>

</blockquote>

 

 

 

 

Exactly, look through the preferences and get to know what's there, just takes a couple of minutes. You tell LR where to put the catalogs and which catalogue to open up to when it opens. Easy as pie. Nothing bout LR and Mac that should be having a problem with a catalogue on an external drive.