It sounds like our setups have some of the same problems. ?All my disk space is on the Mac Pro, it has 4 internal drives, as well as 3 external drives, and a Drobo. ?So adding external space to the MacBook Pro to move everything over isn¡¯t cheap. ?As a result, the MacBook Pro simply mounts the Mac Pro disks over the network (hence the NAS). ?Part of my problem is cost, part of it is that I can¡¯t decide on what sort of a disk solution to sink my money into. ?I¡¯d be buying another Drobo as part of the storage, if they hadn¡¯t gone under. ?I¡¯d also like to move some of the data off of the Mac, and onto a NAS. ?
I¡¯m currently standardized on 4TB drives, I have have a backup copy of each HD that I keep offsite, and a couple disks have a second copy that I keep here at home. ?I also have Cloud backups of my data, and the most important is also backed up by Apple Time Machine. ?Yes, I¡¯m big into Backups.
Actually I have a Veeam server (backups) for my home lab that¡¯s copying some of the backups over to the Drobo on the Mac Pro (it¡¯s acting as a NAS for that as well), so that the backups then get copied to my cloud backup provider. ?This enables me to have offsite copies of the backups of my OpenVMS cluster. ?Needless to say, nothing is normal about my computer setup here at home.
Zane
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On Apr 3, 2023, at 4:37 PM, Bob Morse <stilljustbob@...> wrote:
Hi, Zane.
As long as your workflow is only "borderline,"? I think you're in good company.
I'm not nearly as organized / structured as you are. The vast majority of my files are on a very aging Dell XPS desktop with additional drives added internally and in a Sabrent "toaster." A year or so ago, I bought an M1 MacBook Pro, pretty much entry level,
to replace an older Dell XPS laptop as a traveler. In principal, all photos get copied from the cameras onto the old Dell desktop, then imported into Lightroom, at which time I eliminate the worst. Problem #1 is that I keep too many. Could you elaborate on
your comment that you're using your Mac Pro as a NAS?? A NAS is on my horizon, but my horizon keeps moving.
I always appreciate your thoughts and observations.
?? /AnotherBob
My workflow is borderline psychotic. ?I wish that was a joke.
1. Import photos into Lightroom Catalog (2010 Mac Pro)
2. Import photos from Lightroom Catalog into Capture One (2021 MacBook Pro)
3. Review, select and adjust photos in Capture One (2021 MacBook Pro)
a. If needed edit in Photoshop
(1) If needed process in Silver Efex Pro
(2) If needed process in Exposure x7
b. If needed process in Exposure x7
4. Import edited photos into Lightroom Catalog (2010 Mac Pro)
5. Export photos (either from Lightroom or Capture One, depending on how I¡¯m using the photos).
For a year now, I¡¯ve been planning to get a good disk storage unit hooked up to the MacBook Pro and move the data over.
?For now I¡¯m mainly using the Mac Pro as a NAS device, and for running software that won¡¯t work on the MacBook Pro.
For Lightroom specifically, I do my organization as Jon has described. ?Prior to upgrading to the MacBook, and upgrading Capture One, I¡¯d been doing most of my work in Lightroom.
Zane
