Lightroom synchronized on different Windows XP machines (maybe Mac OS X too)

cornerstone of how I use computers is to have duplicate, synchronized
machines in different locations, as a precaution problems with one machine through off site hot spare redundancy.

Here are details of how I have been able to incorporate Lightroom in this approach, that is, to have the same Lightroom working environment on different Windows XP machines.

http://quantum.bu.edu/blog/2007/02/adobe-lightroom-synchronized-on.html

In this way I am able me to work with files on one machine, synchronize images and Lightroom settings onto a second machine, and then continue working on the second machine where I left off on the first machine.

Perhaps the same approach can be adapted to Mac OS X.

I surely hope this is helpful, and I'd be grateful for any suggestions for improvements or cautions/gotchas.

This is interesting Dan!

Did you come up with this yourself?

Asher

Neat solution!

What I am trying to figure out is how to export email size previews or web galleries or slideshows from offline files? Basically, I want to have my main LR database and all raw files on my desktop and be able to simply copy the database and previews to my laptop so I could submit digital proofs to a client while I'm on the road. Why can't I extract all these beautiful previews that I've taken the time to render (which I've previously taken the time to embed in my DNGs)?

Asher Kelman said:

Did you come up with this yourself?Asher

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Indeed. The germ of the idea was my long experience with Unix systems where symbolic links (a more robust version of the Windows shortcut) are widely used. (Also I wanted to get off the lurk list...)

There is a thread on the Adobe Lr forum where people have made some further comments.

Anyhow, so far so good.