Well I might have ordered that Mac prematurely. I just found this thread - Win/Mac & Database - #15 by platypus which explains that you can’t share your database between Mac/Windows machines (I’m not even sure you can share it between same type machines). I may need to start a new thread for this, but figured I’d come back here first.
I keep my master RAW files in a NAS, organized by year and then shootname-shootdate. Its pretty simple and been that way for a long time. I have always kept my LR libraries synced from the NAS to all my computers. I don’t use them at the same time and assure they are allowed to fully sync before switching devices.
Now the plan with PL6 was going to be to continue this as I have been and the side cars would just get dropped into the master folder. Now my question is if I do that, and allow each computer to have its own database, will the changes to side cars accomplish migrating changes from one database to another? As an example, I load an image to the NAS. I open it in PL6 on my SurfacePro. I make an edit and close it. I later go to the Mac and open the same file on the Mac. I would expect the sidecar to update the Mac database. I make an edit to the image on the Mac. I then close it. I go back to the SurfacePro and open the image again. There is now a newer sidecar with the file then what the SufracePro database has, so I’d expect it to be updated.
Will this work?