I Love Lightroom.
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Howdy.
So I bought Lightroom this week and have started learning about it and planning some time to get it situated. Here's an important question some of you may relate to:
I have an MBP with 128 GB SSD. On average I try to keep about 35GB free. I also have a 1TB external firewire drive that contains all my photos and other things. Easily has 80GB of photos.
I set up Lightroom to use the external drive for the catalog to prevent any issues down the road with space on my SSD. Can someone explain to me: If I instead use the SSD for my catalogs, and import, for example, a 5GB set of photos, does that actually duplicate the set of photos and place them on the SSD? Or, does the catalog just contain data?
I discovered that Lightroom doesn't work with catalogs on a Networked drive. Sometimes I put my 1TB external on our network router so I don't have to keep it plugged in if I'm not working in my office at home. So, I'm trying to decide: keep catalogs on the external drive and just always plug it in, or, does it make more sense performance wise to store on the SSD and somehow figure out how to manage any future size issues, move catalogs, etc.
The thing is, I want to tag all my photos with keywords and do that across the full amount of photos I've imported.Any thoughts?