When it’s finished, the screen returns to normal and you can view the uncorrected and corrected settings by toggling a radio button. Our first reaction was horror — the system had given us a screen setting with a ghastly blue wash that didn’t look nearly as clear as it had been before.

When you import photos you can give them massive amounts of metadata — the key element in finding what you want when there’s so much of it, as any Google algorithm programmer will tell you. In this case, Lightroom metadata can include exposure and other photographic data as well as the usual names, dates and keywords

But a much easier method is to simply access the remote drive. It should show up on your desktop as a network folder by default — if not, just tell the client software to connect to it. It lets you navigate to any folder and simply drag and drop like you would any other file. The further advantage of the network disk is that you can upload anything else to it manually for safekeeping.