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Lightroom Desktop: How does it work multiple user accounts on the same computer?
Since migrating from Google photos I am struggling sharing photos with my wife. Lightroom web is incredibly slow and PC is limited for two computers. I have a PC and laptop, wife has laptop and bad luck, can not be installed on third computer.
On my PC, I created her own user account in Windows and realized I can run Lightroom CC with my account logged in without consuming another license. That was a good news for me.
What I do not understand is how local storage works then. On my Windows user profile I am running LR CC I have all originals stored on disk. If I set LR CC on her Windows profile the same way, it started downloading originals all over again, but on the same destination. It looks like instead of using originals already downloaded it started overwriting originals all over again.
WTF is happening there? Does it mean I have to create two separate originals destinations for each me and wife even if the same Adobe account is logged in and the content is absolutely identical?
On my PC, I created her own user account in Windows and realized I can run Lightroom CC with my account logged in without consuming another license. That was a good news for me.
What I do not understand is how local storage works then. On my Windows user profile I am running LR CC I have all originals stored on disk. If I set LR CC on her Windows profile the same way, it started downloading originals all over again, but on the same destination. It looks like instead of using originals already downloaded it started overwriting originals all over again.
WTF is happening there? Does it mean I have to create two separate originals destinations for each me and wife even if the same Adobe account is logged in and the content is absolutely identical?
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Rikk
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After the second download you mention, did the system end up with one or two sets of locally stored images? Did the behavior settle down?
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