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

Agree with all the posters wishing this feature would be made available. Keyword syncing can’t be hard.

Heh. I wonder if Adobe is satisfied with non Classic; Adobe Literoom so to speak.

Seems it still lags; seems every day in support forums I see people frustrated with it (most recently some with the hobbled cropping choices). So it has a LONG way to go even in just that Develop module.

Bottom line is that the manager might be right...the casual users might be satisfied with just lite features all the way around, and in having just a front end to storage. After all someone with a lot of images, who needs keywords, probably should avoid it for all sorts of reasons.

When LR was rebranded as "Lightroom Classic", Adobe communicated that they would focus most of their efforts on the Develop module (i.e. the part that is shared with Camera Raw and Lightroom). They also explicitly stated there would be no more improvements in sync between LR Classic and LR Cloud.  Supposedly, the Lightroom Cloud product manager indicated at a Adobe conference several years ago that he didn't think manually added keywords were very important.

Why doesn't Adobe feel that this feature is not useful?  If they feel that Keywords are not important then why to they provide the ability to input keywords?  What use are keywords that are different between Classic and Mobile?  It is crazy that this bug has been here since the they started to sync, and they don't seem to want to fix it.  If they wont fix it they should remove keywording; but that would make people realize that there is a problem that most people don't know is there.

Hi,

I spent some time to ensure that my images in Lightroom Classic get the necessary keywords so I can retrieve them easily afterwards when I need them.

I just started syncing my collections to Lightroom and all appear nicely, however, when checking an image the keywords are not visible. Additionally, when searching for a keyword I know I applied, I get 0 results.

Is this expected behavior? Or did I do something wrong with the syncing?

Concur with those who have stated that this is extremely disappointing. This makes using LR Cloud at an adjunct to LR Classic (which seems the most natural use case, but what do I know) even more limiting.

Is there a mechanism for moving information from the Cloud to Classic environment? What I mean is, if I want to mark a photo or set of photos in the Cloud and then use that knowledge once I'm in Classic... How can I do that? (Keywords, labels, comments all either don't work or have massive constraints). Right now I am using the photo Title as a stop-gap, which is obviously a horrible answer.

Really quite irritating.

It is hugely inconvenient that keywords don't synchronize between these two platforms. The extra work flow entailed to correct for this significantly reduces the usefulness of LR Mobile.

Please correct for this! 

Having a mobile app is great, but I need to sync keywords to and from Classic. After all, this is just software. Please add this feature to the next sprint to solve this limitation.

Yeah if you backup that folder you still have a backup of any file that gets deleted. However, be aware that your edits won't get backed up in that case. It is just the source file that gets backed up.

Thanks for the precision, @jao_van_de_lagemaat !

Loosing any grip on the folder and album structure is just a big no no for me. This is synonym of total lock in with little or no way out.

The sync process might be deleting a file right away, but a backup strategy can still be applied on that specific folder, being TimeMachine or any other bakcup system.