Lightroom Catalog gets corrupted when I swap SSD into my other editing computer.

I have 2 identical computers with the same Lightroom running on them.

I usually work on my home computer editing wedding photos in the morning. When I need to go to the office I take my editing SSD drive with me and istall it into my other PC. This is not an external SSD but a regular secondary drive I insert into the computer and close the housing.

Every time I swap the SSD drive the Lightroom catalog gets corrupted. The backup copy works so I use that all the time but the main catalog is corrupted.

My question: Why does it create a problem that I remove the SSD and insert it into another computer? Both computers has the same processor, motherboard, etc. I make sure I completely shut down the computer before I remove the drive.

Any ideas????

I wish I could help you but I can't. The problem you are experiencing is exactly why I have avoided LR. I only use PS and Bridge.

Does you have two Lightroom licences or a license that permits use on two different computers with the same data?

No idea. But I am sure it is not designed to do what you are attempting to do. Internal drives are not meant for "mobile" applications - so going back and forth, you are asking for trouble, apart from the problem with LR.

What Matt suggests may be the likely cause, the catalog is probably tied to the license on one system or the other. Have you exporting the catalog?
Not sure how practical that might be for daily use, but it may avoid the corruption problem.

bdial said:

What Matt suggests may be the likely cause, the catalog is probably tied to the license on one system or the other. Have you exporting the catalog?
Not sure how practical that might be for daily use, but it may avoid the corruption problem.

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It works on the backup drive so presumably licence is not the problem.

MattKing said:

Does you have two Lightroom licences or a license that permits use on two different computers with the same data?

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Lightroom is installed on 2 separate computers.

Eric Rose said:

I wish I could help you but I can't. The problem you are experiencing is exactly why I have avoided LR. I only use PS and Bridge.

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I am an Indian wedding photographer: www.haringphotography.com
I shoot Indian weddings of 2-4 days. I have 3000-4000 images to process. I can't do that with Bridge and PS.

bdial said:

What Matt suggests may be the likely cause, the catalog is probably tied to the license on one system or the other. Have you exporting the catalog?
Not sure how practical that might be for daily use, but it may avoid the corruption problem.

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Not relly, just move it. I guess I should export it and import it in the 2nd machine. The problem is that I need to build 1:1 previews again.

Have you tried Adobe's support? It may be that this requires something like a docking connection for the drive.

Instead of opening Lightroom on the second computer, click on the catalog file from your first computer. It is possible that your second computer is looking for the old file which doesn't jive with the new file by the same name, so give it the new one. That might work. You will of course need to keep the catalog file and the images together instead of leaving the catalog in the default location which is more than likely on your system drive.

Hope that helps.

haring said:

I am an Indian wedding photographer: www.haringphotography.com
I shoot Indian weddings of 2-4 days. I have 3000-4000 images to process. I can't do that with Bridge and PS.

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I understand. LR is awesome for such things.