5 Replies Latest reply on Aug 21, 2016 6:04 PM by clintf44626856

How do I share a lightroom catalog on a single PC?

clintf44626856 Aug 21, 2016 12:52 PM

Hello,

I have started using Lightroom to manage my pics after Nikon nerfed Capture Nx2. The problem I'm running into is my wife wants to be able to -- on her own -- browse thru pics and choose which ones she wants to use for various projects. My hope was I could set her up w/a logon on my SP4 and just give her access to Lightroom and the catalog from her account. The catalog is on my local PC and the pics are stored in my One Drive account - local storage for which is on an attached USB Hdd. When I opened lightroom from her account it was empty so I pointed it at the local catalog file....this PC >pictures >lightroom. It didn't appear to do anything; there were still no pics showing. So, I did a test import and added one folder.... import from the USB drive to Catalog - using the Add option. Now, I can see the pics in this folder but not in the same manner; meaning in my lightroom on my account there are 12 pics. 8 nefs and 4 jpges from those nefs. In her account, there are 8 nefs but some also say nef+jpeg in the file info in grid view. The attributes I've added to the pictures such as color marking and flags came over but, I make changes, they're not reflected for the other user. There's a lot of confusing info on the interwebs about this subject and I'm hoping to get a clear answer as to how to best share the catalog with my wife

1. Re: How do I share a lightroom catalog on a single PC?

JimHess Aug 21, 2016 1:59 PM (in response to clintf44626856)

Your wife needs to go into the Lightroom preferences file under her username and check the option to treat JPEG images next to raw images as separate files. Then she can synchronize the folder and the JPEGs should be added.
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clintf44626856 Aug 21, 2016 3:08 PM (in response to JimHess)

Thanks Jim. I'll do this but what about overall way I've done this? I don't know if this right or wrong and what will/won't show up for her in terms of Lightroom attributes such as picked/not picked, ratings, colors etc..... Ideally, I'd like her to see the catalog the way I've set it up for me so we can stay in sync.
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JimHess Aug 21, 2016 4:10 PM (in response to clintf44626856)

I have never run Lightroom this way. My wife and I both have separate computers. But as I understand it, if she is using the same catalog to view the same images then all of the adjustments and ratings should be visible by either user. I was going to caution that only one you can access the catalog at any given time. But if it's a single computer that obviously isn't an issue. After she makes that change in her preferences you will just have to let her examine the images and see what shows up. It would be nice if you would report back, mainly for my benefit.
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clintf44626856 Aug 21, 2016 4:54 PM (in response to JimHess)

Ok. Let me do a little more testing and I'll report back what I'm seeing. Thanks for your help!
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5. Re: How do I share a lightroom catalog on a single PC?

clintf44626856 Aug 21, 2016 6:04 PM (in response to JimHess)

Well, my first problem was I didn't have the right catalog file selected on her account. I fixed that and now I can see the catalog as I see it on my account but I haven't had time to do anything additional yet. We'll see how this goes sharing a catalog.
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