P: Ability to sync Lightroom Classic keywords with the Lightroom Ecosystem

Its a terrible idea to abandon hierarchical keywords. They are just plain text, its entirely up to the image reader to parse them. Those of us who actually need hierarchical data want it supported, not cast aside.

Seven years later and Lightroom CC/Mobile is still useless to me.

- I use Bridge at work (product photography) and Lightroom Classic at home. Neither workflow would be usable with LR CC.

- My home library has > 350,000 files, on multiple external hard drives. That's not going in the cloud.

- I have probably 150,000 images at work and again, not usable in the cloud (plus management wouldn't want them there.)

- At work, I make heavy use of keywords in Bridge which are not usable in either version of Lightroom.

- As for the whole syncing issue, keywords are plain text. Parent|Child|Child|Child. I can't believe that a solution cannot be found.

- Also, keywords live in multiple XMP/EXIF namespaces. Adobe hasn't even gotten THOSE right. :sigh:

- Honestly, there should just be ONE version of Lightroom that works with both local and cloud catalogs, allows granular syncing to mobile/cloud, has full support for keywords, is compatible with Bridge, is more easily scriptable (one big reason I use Bridge at work, despite its numerous flaws) and fixes all the poor UI choices. If I was the product manager I'd buy the rights to Aperture and use the UI concepts. Get rid of the different modes. Make it the kind of app it SHOULD be.

Another vote for an option to limit Lightroom Classic keywords to being flat, so they can sync with Lighroom cloud.

I actually already flattened my Classic keyword list, only to be disappointed that they still won't sync. 😔

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I'd rather lose the hierarchical information if it means that I can sync keywords between the two. (I don't use hierarchical keywords anyway in LrC). 

In addition, I use Smart Folders to automatically gather photos by locations, which will eventually evolve into their own photography projects. Not having this on the go is quite limiting. 

Please count on my vote in adding Keyword and Smart Folder sync between the two. 

Hallo Zusammen,

Wenn ich mit der Kamera Wandern bin und meine Fotos sichern möchte, lade ich Sie über die Lightroom App gern übers Handy oder Tablett in die Cloud. Abends würde ich die Zeit dann gern dazu nutzen die Fotos mit Stichworten, Bewertungen und anderen Attributen zu versehen, so dass ich sie Zuhause dann direkt mit Lightroom Desktop weiterverarbeiten könnte. Leider werden weder Stichworte noch Bewertungen noch Kennzeichnungen zwischen der Desktop Version und der Android Version synchronisiert. Das wäre aber, meiner Meinung nach, ein echter Mehrwert. Sonst kann ich die Lightroom App wirklich nur als Datensicherung nutzen. 

Ist geplant, dieses Synchronisierungs-Feature zu integrieren?

Danke für die Antwort im Voraus.

Markus

I add my voice to this feature request: Keywords should sync between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic. 

I understand keywords work differently in both versions of Lightroom, so here are two ways this feature could be implemented:

First, and I think that would be best, Adobe should implement hierarchal keywords in Lightroom CC. They successfully replicated all editing tools that exist in Classic in CC. So why not hierarchal keywords? It's defintitely possible if they have the will to do it. Then if the keywords management work the same in CC and Classic, then keywords sync is possible.

Second, if Adobe really doesn't want to implement hierarchal keywords in CC, then create a new panel in Classic, called for example Flat Keywords. This would create two class of keywords in Lightroom Classic: the hierarchal ones that don't sync, and the flat ones that sync.

Ich habe mal einen Versuch gemacht und mir LR auf dem Android Handy installiert,

Die Idee war unterwegs die Bilder als Backup in die Cloud zu laden und etwas vorsortieren und Verschlagworten

Die syncronisation mit LR Classic funktioniert, bis auf die für mich wichtigste Funktion, die Verschlagwortung.

Zum einen kann ich nicht mehrere Bilder auf dem Handy gleichzeitig mit dem selben Schlagwort versehen, allein das macht das schon Sinnlos, denn 500 Bilder einzeln mit den gleichen Schlagwörtern versehen ist dämlich.

Aber die Schlagworte werden auch nicht an LR Classic übertragen.

Ich hatte dann noch versucht mit der Downloadsoftware die Files incl der XMPs auf den Rechner zu laden, funktioniert insoweit, dass die Entwicklungseinstellungen in den XMPs stehen, aber auch hier fehlen die Stichwörter.

Was für ein Mist.

I have been using LR since it's inception, and still use LR Classic as my primary library and editing platform. I use LR CC on my laptop and in the past, the keywords from Classic transferred to CC. I now notice that keywords are no longer transferring. This creates a major issue when using CC, particularly if searching for specific images. Apparently from what I read, Adobe has prevented "syning" of keywords intentionally due to differeing formats for keywords between Classic and CC. This is a bug that really needs to be fixed so that the 50,000 images I have in Classic can be keyworded in CC.

It seems very strange to me that the tagging functionality in LR Mobile does not update LR Classic.  My titles come over but not my tags. Can we fix this limitation?

I would love to be able to travel with my iPad Pro instead of a laptop.  When I travel, I just want to copy my photos, flag or rate them, add a few keywords and some do some basic editing.  I often do not have robust (if any) internet service and want to be able to transfer my keywords and adjustments back to Lightroom classic when I get home.  An internet based solution does not work well if you take 50+ go of photos a day.

is this too much to ask?