On 28/04/18 21:40, nospam wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:


I have a MacBook - it has 512GB internal SSD which will be shared with
several users (family).

Start by being selfish and don¹t share the MacBook with the family. Get the
family their own MacBook.

Lob us a couple of grand and you're on mate!

macbooks start at *under* $1000.

Not Pros with decent GPUs


Is there any reasoning to that? Not being funny (or ungrateful to free
advice) - I just like to understand the "why"

it's a ****load of effort that is not only not needed, but begging to
cause all sorts of problems.

So mostly down to the number of devices then?


the best solution is smart previews, keeping a small proxy copy on the
macbook and the full resolution copy on a nas.


Lightweight portable drives are reasonably inexpensive today for work on the
road, and you have access to the LR CC Cloud storage. Also for work at home
the time has come to improve your NAS.

Maybe - but that's another project (I've just redone my home network and
Wifi and security - one project at a time

what project? buy a nas, add some drives, done. configuration takes a
few minutes and they can saturate a single gigabit link (some have
multiple gigabit ports which can be aggregated).

If it costs more than a hundred odd and/or becomes a central family
resource, it gets designed as a project and integrated with my core
network, not slapped in - that's how I roll

A NAS makes a good backup target, but I think this application, a
portable device is best for the main store - that Sandisk SSD will
outstrip all of my network for transfer speed by a large margin. Much of
this is governed by the fact it's only me working with photos.