WD My Cloud and Adobe Lightroom catalogues

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I have just purchased a My Cloud to back up local files and have the content available when out and about, but as a photographer I was wondering whether it’s possible to use this devce as a cloud storage to be able to run Lightroom wherever I am and have my images and catalogues usable remotely.

If anyone has any experience of Lightroom using this device I would be intereseted to hear of your experieces and workflow recommendations.

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In theory yes, but you would have to have access to the mycloud directly on both sides of your firewall, some form of DNS that resolves the same way on both sides of the firewall and of course, holes (NAT + Rules) in your firewall to allow you to access the mycloud device as a local share.

Would I do that? No. Way too risky to have your firewall open for share access to the device even with a password.

Also, if working on RAW files or large JPG files, the speed over the internet would be a killer for the most part due to limited upload speeds of most internet connections. Download, no problem, upload is almost always a fraction of the download speed.

If you have a space issue due to using a laptop, keep a large USB drive with you at all times with your catalogues and photos and then once home, back it up to the mycloud.

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Thanks, I take your point about the security and file size.

I use a Laptop out and about on assignment and only have a relatively small SSD so I just edit locally and then copy the files back to my PC when I return home.

With the My Cloud maybe there is a way that my RAW files and the Lightroom catalogue on the PC, Laptop and WD Cloud can be kept in sync witout me having to copy them from one device to another manually?

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Is it a windows or Mac laptop?

For Windows, look into creating a simple batch file to copy everything and when you get back, it is a matter of running the batch file. Look into RoboCopy on Google.