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April 8, 2014
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P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

  • April 8, 2014
  • 309 replies
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Collection synching / Lightroom Mobile is a great addition to Lightroom 5.4. Please extend this functionality to Smart Collections as well.

309 replies

Inspiring
September 26, 2015
I have removed the LR mobile app from all of my devices. Without this feature, LR mobile is useless to me. I want to take photographs, not sit around on my bum managing 'dumb' collections so they'll be available on my mobile devices.
Inspiring
September 21, 2015
Or Adobe could understand that users might *want* the ability to edit collections out and about. The photo is still on the computer, just not in the collection so accidental changes aren't a huge issue. Its very easy to accidentally change ratings on the computer as well - one keypress only, but that is not an argument for not supporting ratings...
Inspiring
September 20, 2015
This feature would be HUGE in automating updates and additions to a mobile portfolio. Lightroom workflow would surely benefit from this functionality.
Inspiring
September 8, 2015
Just signed up for Lightroom CC and the first feature I tried to do is to sync my smart collection.. Only to find out we can't. And it's been 1 year since people asked for this!

Like what others have suggested, a simple undo button will fix the problem of disappearing photo from collection by unflag.

Tom Hogarty from Adobe, please let us know if this is going to be fixed, otherwise I'm going to cancel my subscription and request for a refund.
Participant
September 6, 2015
Agree with Brian here, and disagree with Mike. Aperture has had this feature for years so it is both technically possible and usable for the customer.
Participant
September 6, 2015
The synced collection on mobile could be made read-only -- problem solved.
Participant
August 23, 2015


Would it be possible to add the "Sync with Lightroom mobile" option to Smart Collections as well? I'd very, very happy to be able to edit the photographs from, say, the last week or two with my iPad and the collection would always be up to date.
Participant
August 18, 2015
Adobe; it seems the People have spoken! We want to sync smart Collections and we are not mindless Creatures that does not understand the implications of doing changes to Your smart Collection on the fly.

And in the case of an accidental swipe... the world won't stop.
Inspiring
August 18, 2015


I would like to sync a smart collection between LR Desktop and LR for mobile. That's not possible for the moment. Will this feature be included in the next update?
Thank s for your work!
Participant
August 8, 2015
Yes, being able to sync Smart Collections as well would be awesome! I don't see the "accidental remove" as a problem, as others have pointed out it is not lost - and you can do the same mistake on desktop as well. Actually, I'd expect it to be removed if I changed something so it no longer match the smart rules for the collection - same functionality as on desktop. (There are other mistakes you can do even now, like setting the Rejected flag on a photo - which could lead to it being deleted physically if you delete rejected on desktop later on). So Adobe, pretty please implement this.