Let dropbox upload the entire file again.
The way I understand it, I have to close Lightroom, let dropbox upload the whole file and not until this is done AND the new version is downloaded onto the macbook, I can open lightroom on the macbook and see the changes.
Dropbox smart sync and lightroom download#
I start my PC.and dropbox starts to download the old "updated" version without the initial changes that was copied from the macbook. Now, with Lightroom open on the macbook, which has the OLD database version, dropbox starts to upload and "update" the version that's on the macbook. Next day I open up my macbook, and see that none of the changes is there, because the new version of the database file with all of the changes I made didn't upload.
Dropbox smart sync and lightroom Pc#
I switch off my PC before the upload is done/finished. Dropbox starts to upload the new version of the database file, right. I do a lot of editing, changes and stuff. Let's say I am working on my PC and my macbook is switched off. Sometimes though, an image that I edited suddenly loses all the changes, and this is because of this: I use Dropbox to sync the entire database between PC at home and my Macbook, and I thought I was really smart doing so. Best practice would be anyway to store those somewhere else in your disk space. Additionally, I have an additional TB of scanned data from my analogue life.įor the corrupt data problem: You may try to recover from a backup catalog. My current pictures database (2015+2016) is currently around 1TB, my overall database of pictures dating 10 years back (to the beginning of my digital area) is around 2 TB. A backup is then scheduled from my workstation disk to my NAS.
The story here is, that I have a first backup of my most recent data and I can continue working the pictures on my workstation. When I'm at my base office, I import that catalog database (import from catalog) into my workstation's catalog database. For that reason, I have a catalog database on my external disk.
My workflow is, that most of the time, I import and develop on my Laptop. And that is why Chetna reminds not to store the catalog on a network drive. The problem with this is naturally that nobody can ensure the integrity of the data base if, by mischance, you access the database with 2 computers at the same time. Dropbox or equivalent is probably the only possibility to store your catalog file in a networked manner, but this makes sense only if you access the same pictures on the same (local NAS) disk.
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