I have no experience with Lightroom but I keep all of my photos on an external drive. I've done this since I was scanning slides 10 years ago and knew I'd fill up my 80Gb internal drive pretty quickly.
I almost lost all of my photos a few years ago when my external drive started to misbehave, so my advice is to make sure you have two drives and keep them synchronised. I keep my "B" drive in a separate building to minimise the risk from fire or burglary. The earthquakes weren't big enough to find the flaw in my plan. Cheers, Dave > On Nov 9, 2014, at 12:54 am, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The solid state drive on My MacBook Air is nearly full. A huge amount of the > data on it is in my photos database. I understand it is possible to keep the > photos database “off-site” on an external hard drive, with the disadvantage > that photos can then be edited only when the drive is connected to the > computer. > > I also understand there are two ways to move the photos database to an > external drive so that Lightroom is aware of their existence: (1) access the > external drive from within Lightroom and then copy of the files within > Lightroom, (2) move the files to the external drive outside Lightroom then > having Lightroom “find the missing files.” > > Have I got the options right? If so my inclination is to use the second > method. I don’t relish the though of dragging the folders for my entire > database around in Lightroom. Any opinions or precautions about this? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "Our world is a human world." > > - Hilary Putnam > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
