color marks not stored with catalogue?

[Murseblonder]

Hi:

I run upon a minor but strange problem: I work with my Lightroom catalogue on two different Macs (iMac at home, MacBook on location). When I mark a photo, say on location with say the color green for "accepted", I would expect that I can see this green mark at home, when I open this catalogue at home. Alas this is not the case, so I have to mark the accepted photos with some stars or a keyword to have the results when I work at home.

Why is this? I would expect Lightroom to store all adjustments, remarks and such applied to a photo in a way that they are still here when you open this catalogue again, even on a different Mac. Any ideas or even a workaround (except setting stars or keywords)?

Thx, Rudolf

[ManiacJoe]

The color marks are stored in the catalog.

How are your transferring the catalog from one computer to the other?

[Murseblonder]

the catalog sits on the MacBook which I connect as an external harddrive to my iMac. The Lightroom app takes the catalog from there. That is why I am puzzled about not seeing these color marks, but all the other adjustments.

[DdeGannes]

Just some hints.

a. Lightroom by default stores all the work you do in the Catalog File, if you choose to store the info into a .xmp sidecar file /or into the file header of a jpeg, tiff file its possible however not all of the info is stored in the .xmp / file header.

b. For you to see the same info / edits on your iMac at home and your MacBook on location you need to use the same Catalog or a Copy of the Catalog.

c. Lightroom does not sync info from your Desktop to your Laptop Computer. Sync is only available from a computer to a mobile device e.g iPad, iPhone, Smartphone

[john beardsworth · Accepted solution]

Murseblonder wrote:

Hi:

I run upon a minor but strange problem: I work with my Lightroom catalogue on two different Macs (iMac at home, MacBook on location). When I mark a photo, say on location with say the color green for "accepted", I would expect that I can see this green mark at home, when I open this catalogue at home. Alas this is not the case, so I have to mark the accepted photos with some stars or a keyword to have the results when I work at home.

Why is this? I would expect Lightroom to store all adjustments, remarks and such applied to a photo in a way that they are still here when you open this catalogue again, even on a different Mac. Any ideas or even a workaround (except setting stars or keywords)?

Thx, Rudolf

Your problem is probably because the two computers have different Color Label Sets enabled. See Metadata > Color Label Set. To fix it, you need to enable the same Color Label Set on each computer.

Lr doesn't actually store the colour label as a colour. Instead it records a text value, and then uses the Color Label Set to figure out that the text value "accepted" should be shown as a green label. So if another computer has a different Color Label Set active, Lr will think that you want green to be shown for images with the text value "green" in the colour label field. Hope that's clear.

[Murseblonder]

@john: thx a lot, you solved my problem!