After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...

Currently storing my LR library on a portable drive mounted on my iMac, where I do most of my LR use. Recently bought a HP laptop to take on trips and thinking about setting up LR there as well.

Why is your USB drive so slow? If your drive is formatted in FAT32 or exFAT (the latter of which can handle larger capacity drives), you have your answer. USB drive vendors tend to format their drives ...