<p>Dear All</p>
<p>Please can I pick your brains about how best to arrange things so that my wife and I can edit the same stock of photos (not necessarily simultaneously, which I take it could cause problems).</p>
<p>(This is related to but more general http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?18448-external-hard-drives-to-use-with-LR.)</p>
<p>We will soon have bought (unless advised otherwise!) two Apple MBPs (since we tend after long days at work to edit on the sofa!).</p>
<p>I take the options are roughly: external drives, sticks, cloud, network. In detail …</p>
<p>A. We keep the pics and catalog on an external hard drive which whoever’s editing plugs into their computer. Downside: it’s a bit irritating when editing or showing pics to someone to have to keep an eye to ensure the USB cable doesn’t get knocked out; it’s somehow nicer to be self-contained.</p>
<p>B. Same as A, but using a 512GB or 1TB memory stick instead. Downside: the sticks are still pretty big, so same downside as A, to an extent, and also (is this right?) I’ve been told that memory sticks are relatively unreliable.</p>
<p>C. We keep the pics and catalog in the cloud and wirelessly edit them there. Downside: perhaps impossible, or at any rate too slow?</p>
<p>D. Same as C, but using some sort of on-site server or drive (I’m a bit out of my depth here), perhaps like Apple’s Time Capsule. Downside: perhaps impossible, or at any rate too slow?</p>
<p>Are there other options? For example: is there an option where the pics reside on my MBP’s internal SSD but, in some very easy way I can get them onto an external drive if my wife wants to edit or take them somewhere? (If there is, I should ensure I buy a MBP with a big enough SSD; otherwise, I needn’t worry about that so much.)</p>
<p>Perhaps there’s an option involving smart previews, which I am just beginning to get my mind around?</p>
<p>Any advice you have would be MOST welcome.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>David</p>
