thanks Kev! Good stuff to know for sure!

No problem :)

no problem :)

So when I edit a shoot It's generally for a client or a project. So Im not going to export tons of photos to my desktop and then delete after I send to my phone. Some will get sent to my phone and then posted on instagram. But most are saved on a HD for backup and then delivered to clients. If I am creating a post for social media, I still want to have a backup of it. I create a folder for it on the Hard Drive for that shoot so I can find it later. Realistically I never "work from my computer". I do a shoot, I save it all to an external HD, I import to Lightroom from that folder on the external HD and I save the exports in a separate folder next to the RAW folder to keep them organized in case I need to find the RAWs or exports later. Once the project is done I then back them up on another HD which is only used for a secondary back up. This is for everything I shoot. landscapes, fun TFP shoots, client work, etc. Once the exports are done, I will share them to my phone via the export folder or upload to the online gallery I use to deliver to clients. Hope this helps. If I misunderstood your question let me know and I will clarify best I can. :)

@@willsimpsonphoto Thank you for this info. Really appreciate your time. I like your process and it is how I have been wanting to do things. Can you explain the way you get your exports to a folder on your external SSD? I understand now how to export to the desktop and airdrop to Instagram and FB thanks to your video but lost on how to get those to a folder on my external SSD after. Probably over thinking but I am obviously missing something, lol. Also, the default catalog and all its folders, etc that get installed in my Macs picture folder upon installing LRC, is there any reason I can’t just totally delete all of that since I made a new folder on my external SSD for all images and my used LRC catalog? I somehow accidentally imported 3 small imports in the beginning that went to the default catalog instead of going to the one on my external SSD. After not seeing those 3 imports in my external SSD catalog, I was advised to: Click on parent folder "Lightroom Raw Images" and right click then click "Synchnorize Folder" to see the images I could add to my external Catalog. This was because I could not find those 3 imports of 41 images. It worked and they appeared back to my external SSD catalog but now there is duplicate images in both catalogs and I don’t want that. Just wondering if from syncing like I was advised to do because I did not realize at the time they went to the default catalog in my Macs picture folder, that if I delete it will it cause harm to my actual catalog on my external SSD? Thank you.

Yeah I’ve heard that a few times 😂 been playing around with it to balance it out in other videos. Or just not adding it lol.

I had this problem a while ago as well. I can’t remember how I fixed it but I remember playing with the display modes for the computer. What year is your computer ?

Thanks! I have a couple of videos on LR mobile. Have you seen them?

it is a thumbnail lol

I talked about that later in the video but generally 70% is good for Insta and Facebook uploads.

do you mean to upload to social media or just exporting in general?

I mean both , i just made some tests on it an came out beautiful on instagram even with big file size