Lightroom Travel Catalogs
Assuming you have a travel disk and Lightroom installed on your laptop...
- Make sure both the iMac and MacBook have the current updated version of Lightroom Classic CC.
- Set your Lightroom preferences and Catalog Settings for each computer to be similar.
- On the laptop, create a new catalog named Travel or Africa or something else obvious. I would make sure the location for this is somewhere easy to find. There is nothing worse than getting confused about which catalog is which when you get home and try to merge things!
- On the laptop create a new folder hierarchy for the images you will be importing. I would make sure the location for this is somewhere easy to find.
- While on the the trip just import, edit, keyword, flag, star etc. as normal.
- At whatever interval on your trip you can manage, copy the entire catalog folder and the image folders to the backup disk. If there is room I make dated copies of these. Then you avoid problems if you have to grab your bags and go in the middle of a copy or something. When you have 2 or 3 copies you can delete the older ones to make room if you need it.
- Back at home, make sure you have copied the latest data.
- Attach your USB drive to the iMac.
- Launch Lr on the iMac and choose File Menu > Import from another catalog…
- Navigate to the USB drive and the catalog folder (not the images folder) and choose the actual travel catalog file.
- You will see a dialog box for making choices about the import.
- You should probably not un-check any of the folders in the list.
- But you should choose the “Copy new photos to new location and import”. This will bring everything to the iMac. When you make that choice, you’ll see the Choose button that will let you pick the folder on the iMac where the images should be copied.
- Then click Import and give it time to work.
Video on the import process:
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