Jcord Loc: West Palm Beach, FL

I'm excited... this is my first post. Hope it goes well. My issue is with Lightroom and OneDrive on 2 computers. I use lightroom classic (cc) subscription. My photos are stored on my Dell Tower computer (1 T hard disk drive) with LR cc and backed up on OneDrive (OD). This works well but the Tower runs slowly. I pause OD while working on my photos and turn it back on after I exit LR. I would like to install lightroom cc on my Dell Laptop (which is much faster with an SSD and better monitor) and access photos via OneDrive there. Is this sensible/possible? I would have to keep everything in sync. I’m concerned that the Catalog could become corrupted. Would appreciate thoughts and where I could get instructions how to do this if it is safe to do. Thank you for your thoughts.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

What do you back up on 1D? Your catalog or your images?

If your tower runs slowly, how much RAM is installed? What other processes are running in the background (right-click on the taskbar, choose Task Manager to see what background processes are running. Click on Performance tab and see what % RAM is available)?

Consider moving everything over to the Laptop and using and external monitor to work.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

How much CPU resources does One Drive take up?
My tower runs rings around my laptop.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

I had to disable OneDrive as it was really slowing down my Dell all-in-one. Once I disabled OneDrive many of my problems went away,

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

lloydl2 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

here is a suggestion. Go buy an external hard drive (SSD if you can) store your photos and and catalog on it and back both up to another drive and/or one drive. you can then plug the drive into the laptop or the tower and lightroom should work fine with either. Labeling the drive letter towards the end of the alphabet like x or y will prevent the drive letter switching on you when you move it between computers..

Jcord Loc: West Palm Beach, FL

Longshadow,
Great suggestion. I have a Samsung 5T SSD external drive very fast but the drive file system is exFAT and not recognized by Carbonite or my local backup drive. According to rep at Carbonite, I could change the exFAT to NTFS and it will work with Carbonite, but not sure I should do this. I'll do some research.

Thanks again.