dtbain wrote:
I take it it's not worth asking whether thumb drives are slower than wireless access to network drives, since I *can't* put the catalog on a network drive according to your first reply (which seems odd, I wonder why).
You can put catalog on a network drive, if you want to - some people are doing it (you need to know the "tricks"). BUT:
* Neither Adobe (nor Adobe's proponents) recommends it (more specifically: they recommend against it), due to potential catalog corruption (I have no idea how much the potential is actually realized).
* It does NOT perform as well as a local (or thumb) drive, due to the frequent transfer of small amounts of data, which networks don't handle as well as local drives.
(in contrast, photo files are an infrequent transfer of large amounts of data, for which networks are well suited)
So, it's generally better not to break the rules, unless there is a very compelling reason - and your situation does not really call for such rule breaking, in my opinion..
~R.