


My original solution was to export new images from the laptop to another catalog on an external hard drive, then plug that drive into the desktop, and then import that catalog from the external drive into the main catalog on my desktop machine. The problem with working on the road: Getting my RAW files from my notebook’s Lightroom catalog to the permanent one on my desktop machine. I currently have two Windows 7 machines, one laptop and one desktop, both running Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC. In that way I could A) avoid the pain that is Windows 8 and B) do all my work on one computer, both at home and the road.

If I had all the money in the world, I would have a MacBook Pro connected to at least one 27-inch Thunderbolt display. In this week’s Sync Hacks: Photographer Paul McElligott ( walks us through setting up BitTorrent Sync with Adobe Lightroom so professional and hobbyist photographers can edit photos on the road and keep files in sync with their computer at home (adapted from Paul’s original tutorial). (And now, it’s 2X faster.) If you’ve got an epic Sync idea, use-case or how-to, shoot us an email at. BitTorrent Sync is a free, unlimited, secure file-syncing app. Sync Hacks is a column dedicated to exploring new applications for BitTorrent Sync, as built by users like you.
