Multi-user support in Lightroom

[Oliver]

Hi,

Does anybody know if Lightroom supports multiple users working on the
same catalogue simultaneously (i.e. storing the db on a network share
and sharing it among the users) ?

Cheers,
Oliver

[Kai Koenig]

Hey Oliver,

I think it depends a bit on your workflow. As far as I understand it,
it's easy enough to
have to copies of LR point to the same catalogue and use it (on a
network share). I
would be very careful when it comes to accessing it simultaneously
though. IIRC the
catalogue is built as a SQLite DB and I could see a lot of havoc
coming from having
true concurrency on it. That would most likely be "Try on your own
risk" :)

Kai

_________________________________________________
Kai Koenig - Ventego Creative Ltd
ph: +64 4 476 6781 - mob: +64 21 928 365 / +61 450 132 117
web: http://www.ventego-creative.co.nz
blog: http://www.bloginblack.de
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/agentK

[Oliver Seiler]

Hi,

That's what I'm concerned about - I'd need simultaneous access for 3
users - without any havoc and risk involved ;-)

Can somebody confirm?

Cheers,
Oliver

[Geoff the kiwi]

Oliver, multi user is NOT supported at the moment. As Kai has stated
the database is SQL lite which is single user only. When LR is open
a .lock file is created.
I seem to remember a work around being discussed on Lightroom Forums
so you may want to ask there: http://www.lightroomforums.net/
If you want you can also contact me directly with your why you want
this as there may be other ways.
geoffw...@gmail.com
021 419 301