Workflow & Business
Your Lightroom Catalog Is a Single Point of Failure — Here's How to Fix That
The Shoot That Almost Broke My Business A few years into running my commercial photography business, I handed my laptop to a client so she could scroll through some selects. She accidentally knocked it off the conference table. The machine survived. My external drive, plugged into the USB port at the time, did not. I lost two weeks of catalog work: metadata, keywords, star ratings, color labels, develop settings. The raw files were fine on a second drive, but every organizational decision I had made was gone.