P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

Disappointed that this feature wasn't added to 5.7. Perhaps we'll have to wait for another 9 months to see....

I agree with all of the commenters. Difficult to come up with a useful workflow without smart collection support. Alternatively, a publish service (which can be based on a smart collection, but only updates when published from the desktop) could be useful.

There are alternatives to actually synching the entire smart collect if the collection is really large... as long as you are on Wifi you could cache small thumbs for the grid view and pull down larger versions for loupe view or editing. There are usually creative ways to handle things we just have to take things less literally.

If you know of a 4TB Ipad. Let me know

I'm afraid I don't understand what could be taking so long to implement smart collections. With a large base of users begging for this feature for over 6 months, I would have thought Adobe would pull the trigger on it by now. This feature is so fundamental that I consider lightroom mobile to be useless, meaning that I also believe I've been wasting at least part of my monthly payments to Adobe. When oh when will this be fixed?!?!?

I don't know about you but my whole library is far too large for a mobile device.

As for a pop-up warning, I agree with a previous comment that it would be exceptionally annoying, but if it can be turned off that's a reasonable compromise.

I can see if synching all files (I have about 70K RAW files) the smart previews could quickly use up the space on the iPad... and unlike android devices you can't add storage.

Maybe we could atleast synch large thumbnails or lighter previews to the iPad... that way you can flag or rate if not fully edit.

Glad I found this topic, and that it had so many like minded people. I tried LR Mobile, but the workflow is just plain cumbersome for how I want to use the product. Ideally I want to be able to have full access to my LR catalog on my iPad. My typical use cases would be to go through and add/remove stars, mark photos for deleted, and add some commonly used keywords.

Smart collections are one way to make this workflow a bit easier, but overall there needs to be more caching happening so that the interface is a lot faster. If decide to scroll in the grid to a photo from august 2013, then start caching the photos around it since I will likely want to look at photos around it.

I've uninstalled LR Mobile for now, but I certainly will take a look again when the product matures. (No disrespect intended)

I've assumed that smart collection are supported and searched for the check mark to enable the sync. It took me a while to find out that this only works with normal collections. Who is using them anyway? I never did...

I've now maintained a few synced collections, but maintaining them is just too much work.

No use to me. Took trial but will only buy if smart collections are supported.

One more thing. Would be great if you could export all smart collections at once as a back up. I mean just the settings and not the pictures.