PC and MAC Compatibility Issue With Photos

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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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I just went to LR's help feature and found this:

To transfer a catalog between a Windows computer and a Mac, copy your catalog, preview, and image files from the original computer onto a flash or other external drive. Then, attach that drive to the second computer and copy the files to the desired location on the second computer.


 
Eduard

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sonicbuffalo said:
I just went to LR's help feature and found this:

To transfer a catalog between a Windows computer and a Mac, copy your catalog, preview, and image files from the original computer onto a flash or other external drive. Then, attach that drive to the second computer and copy the files to the desired location on the second computer.
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They are trying to work around the drive format issue. I routinely use the same catalog on an external drive between Windows and OS X without any problems if they are on a FAT32 drive. As long as I have the software to read AND write to NTFS, the same is true for them as well.
 
Fred Kingston_RIP

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That's what I would do Chris... I wouldn't try connecting the two until I had transfered everything I needed from the Windows system to the Mac and both were functioning independently of each other...
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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That's about all I found from the help screen in LR. This is something that should be covered by Adobe because....well....you know others have moved from PC to Mac, and it's a relevant issue....and current one for me before I decide whether or not to go the Mac way. I want to thank all of you for your time and help on this issue....and if you have figured anything else out...please post when you get a minute. Situations like this are when I think LR fails it's consumers.
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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you see....LR had the opportunity here to address those folks switching from a PC to a Mac or vice versa....and they dropped the ball.

To transfer a catalog between a Windows computer and a Mac, copy your catalog, preview, and image files from the original computer onto a flash or other external drive. Then, attach that drive to the second computer and copy the files to the desired location on the second computer.


Read more: http://nikonites.com/computers-software/23873-pc-mac-compatibility-issue-photos-3.html#ixzz367ri88bW
 
Eduard

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sonicbuffalo said:
Situations like this are when I think LR fails it's consumers.
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Really? I think that is where Adobe did a great job! One of the primary reasons I first started using LR was that I could jump between Windows and OS X. The issue isn't with Adobe or LR, it is with the differences between the operating systems. It requires a bit of technical knowledge but it isn't difficult.
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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Eduard said:
Really? I think that is where Adobe did a great job! One of the primary reasons I first started using LR was that I could jump between Windows and OS X. The issue isn't with Adobe or LR, it is with the differences between the operating systems. It requires a bit of technical knowledge but it isn't difficult.
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I guess when I pay $150 for a program, I'd like a little more documentation for how to resolve this issue....other things, it's great at....like it should be.
 
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RocketCowboy

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sonicbuffalo said:
I guess when I pay $150 for a program, I'd like a little more documentation for how to resolve this issue....other things, it's great at....like it should be.
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I think bad documentation in tech has become the norm instead of the exception anymore.

Two thoughts: people probably aren't switching between Windows and OSX too frequently, so possibly not a high hit area of the documentation. Secondly, if it's just thy simple as copying from one system to the other, what else needs to be added?


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