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Participant
April 8, 2014
Not Prioritized

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

Known Participant
May 18, 2021

There are at least two Lightroom Classic plugins that will sync smart collections:

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync

and 

https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/anysource.htm

Inspiring
May 18, 2021

Long time Adobe user as a video/audio guy, but new to Lightroom. 

After setting up a dozen Smart Collections for various portfolios, clients, etc., I'm more than a little dumbfounded that there's no way to sync them. 

Especially since this thread is 7 years old?  Seems like a no-brainer feature to me.  How has this not been added since 2014?

Inspiring
May 15, 2021

Please add this feature. It would make synch even more straightforward.

Inspiring
March 3, 2021

please add the sync. and thank you

johnrellis
Legend
January 31, 2021

...also the Any Source plugin.

Known Participant
January 30, 2021

This Jeffrey Friedl plugin can be used to sync smart collections.

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync

Participant
January 30, 2021

I would like to be able to choose to sync a smart collection with Lightroom Mobile in Lightroom Classic.

Known Participant
January 12, 2021

I concur.  I appreciated the comment on Friedl's work around.  After getting it set up...it has been a good way to wait for Adobe to make improvements on syncing smart collections.

Inspiring
January 12, 2021

I would really appreciate synchronizing smart collections. Lightroom has so much metadata and smart collections are such a benefit, it seems a waste not to leverage them this way. It's an obvious step forward in automating photo management, in my opinion.