I have about 3500 images on an external drive that are the basis of a book project. The drive/images are divided into folders of specfic location (county names). I imported the images (which are a mix of original RAW and converted TIFFs) into a "Folder" in Lightroom. So far, so good, because now I can tag/star rate the images, etc. and eventually add them to a Collection called "Book Images".
Now the question. I get tired sitting at my desk/computer and want to be able to connect the external drive to my notebook to continue editing on my sofa. How do I keep/move the folder, catalog, database, or whatever it's called, on my external hard drive so no matter which computer I use, the tagging, key wording, metadata, etc. all stay with the drive and images, not on the computer on which I was originally working? I bought a book on Lightroom, but it's very "thin" on information dealing with Folders, etc. on multiple computers.
As a side note, I often use BreezeBrowser to edit because all tagged files are written to a text file that stays with RAW and TIFF files on the external drive. Unfortunately, none of that translates to LR or Bridge.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
Nemo