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<blockquote data-quote="DikiLikun" data-source="post: 497775" data-attributes="member: 40836">I use smart previews in just the way you want it: Have my photo archive (2003-2012) on an external drive but created smart preview that I carry with my Macbook. On the road I can browse, edit and even export them for the web.While traveling you can import new RAW files, why not.? Even if you decide to let LR render 1:1 previews, these will be deleted after a while (depending on your settings in Lightroom). Once home you can move the images to your external drive from within LR and decide later whether to use smart previews or not.To speed-up my worklow I shoot JPEG and RAW, import both and browse through the JPGs to flag, sort, reject images. Later I transfer the flags to the RAWs, delete the JGS (sometimes I keep the JPG and delete the RAW) and do the edits on them. Why using JPGs for sorting etc.? It's much faster and no need to wait for LR to render the previews.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DikiLikun, post: 497775, member: 40836"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial]I use smart previews in just the way you want it: Have my photo archive (2003-2012) on an external drive but created smart preview that I carry with my Macbook. On the road I can browse, edit and even export them for the web.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial]While traveling you can import new RAW files, why not.? Even if you decide to let LR render 1:1 previews, these will be deleted after a while (depending on your settings in Lightroom). Once home you can move the images to your external drive from within LR and decide later whether to use smart previews or not.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Arial]To speed-up my worklow I shoot JPEG and RAW, import both and browse through the JPGs to flag, sort, reject images. Later I transfer the flags to the RAWs, delete the JGS (sometimes I keep the JPG and delete the RAW) and do the edits on them. Why using JPGs for sorting etc.? It's much faster and no need to wait for LR to render the previews.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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