I have two computers using lightroom, how to treat two catalogs if I tried to merge

I have a desktop and a laptop, they each have a different set of hard drives and so different catalogs how to catalogue the laptop (with its attendant images) and merge them into the catalog to the desktop? Or is it easier to have two catalogs separated on the desktop?

Thank you

Roger Lieberman

Hi Roger,

You can merge the two catalogs and store the main catalog on an external hard drive so that you can access the same on both the machine.

You can consult this article to merge the catalogs:

m-catalogs-into-a-master-catalog-/ http://TV.adobe.com/watch/Adobe-Evangelists-Julieanne-Kost/LR3-Merging-Individual-lightroo

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