Lightroom and Smart Previews

[munge]

Am getting back into Lightroom and am exploring the possibility of having all my photos on a network drive and use LR for editing.

However I want to be able to edit them when I'm away from the network and it updates them all when I return. Am I right in thinking that this is the basis of Smart Previews?

All my photos have Smart Previews now, how do I move my Masters onto a network drive? Is it just a drag and drop somewhere? Presumably I have to tell LR somehow where the new photos are?

Thanks!

 

[Genoma]

Smart previews are for exactly that, so you can continue to work remotely with your shots. If you have your masters on an external HDD for example, you can continue to work on the smart previews. When the external HDD (or network location) is reconnected, all changes are applied back to the masters

If you want to move your masters onto another drive, whether it's networked or not, the recommended way is to drag and drop them using the Lightroom folders in the navigation view. That way the catalog gets updated with the new locations as you go.

You can also move them manually if say they are all held in a root directory, the navigator with show you a ?? for the missing and give you the options to find it in the new location.

Try with a single folder both ways and see what you prefer.

 

[munge]

Thanks, I'd literally just found a website which describes precisely both of those 2 methods, move in Finder or move in LR.

Move in LR sounds the much more efficient way of doing it, will drag one across and make sure it plays nicely.

Thanks for the reply.