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I started my adventure with photography on a Samsung laptop with Windows, when buying which I was guided mainly by the parameters of what it has inside. Then I bought an external monitor and I struggled for several years until I realized that a TN matrix and a cheap IPS monitor are not the best set for working with photography. Although at that time I had an intel Core i7 processor (you know, the larger the “i” the better) 16GB of RAM and some fancy SSD from Samsung, which I bought to somehow it went. It was tolerable, but sometimes the system stated that 16GB of RAM is not enough and will close a program for me, at its discretion. I was sick of it.<\/p>\n\n

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Switching from PC to MAC while working on photos<\/h2>\n\n

The time has come for a serious decision. At first I thought that buying a laptop for 3000 z\u0142 + larger RAM and SSD, then I already have a demon of speed and performance. However, after testing and serious searching, I decided to switch to the MacBook Pro 15 from 2015<\/p>\n\n

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It was replaced by MacBook Pro 15 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

Apparently also i7, but instead of 2 is already the 4th generation, RAM the same and a small SSD 256GB but not SATA and already PCI-E, but the work on the Mac was much more pleasant. Nothing spilled out with the same amount of RAM, I did not have to format the disk, because the system had some problems and collected syf, and the feeling of this equipment and the quality of the matrix for those times, it was something that gave me joy from work. Today it already works on MacBook Pro 14<\/a> and I sincerely recommend!<\/p>\n

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Laptop for photo processing?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

If you are wondering what laptop to buy for processing and what to look for, take a look at the entry that I have prepared on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Remember about backup!<\/h3>\n\n

Once I installed all the programs on the new computer, I still had to deal with moving the photos and the Lightroom catalog. Here you have to be careful not to make a mess. It is best to rip the contents of the entire drive to an external USB drive. If we are not sure what we will need, it is better to copy everything to an external drive, then successively transfer all files to bring our data and program settings to the state we had on the previous laptop.<\/p>\n\n

At the moment, a decent 1TB SSD for USB 3.2 gen.2, which has transfers at the level of 1000MB \/ s and it is hard to damage it with shocks we will get for about PLN 500. Check out the Samsung T7 1TB.<\/strong><\/a> I use an older version of Samsung T5, which has a transfer rate of about 500MB \/ s, and you can work on it very quickly and even process photos. Losing a large number of photos and other files will not take you much time.<\/p>\n\n

Where do you keep your photos?<\/h3>\n\n

Well, if we have all the photos in a folder that contains all the directories, then we can move it to the new computer and after moving the directory indicate the location of the photos using the “Update folder location” option. <\/strong>If we have photos on a NAS<\/strong><\/a> network drive, we only need to point to the path on the new computer. But let’s start by moving the Lightroom catalog, and we’ll come back to that at the end<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

I have a separate share on the network drive (such a partition on NAS<\/a> servers) called Urbanflavour, and in it everything is divided into years. On a laptop, it looks the same. <\/p>\n\n

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If I move the Photos<\/strong> folder to another place, then select Update Folder Location.<\/strong>.. I can point to its location and Lightroom will already improve the paths to all sub-folders with dates 2021<\/strong>, 2022<\/strong> and the Mobile<\/strong> folder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

How do I transfer a Lightroom folder from PC to Mac?<\/h2>\n\n

Find a catalog<\/h3>\n\n

To move our directory, we must first determine its location, which is very simple. Either we already know where we created the catalog, or we can do it by opening Lightroom Classic and selecting from the menu:<\/p>\n\n