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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
October 31, 2020

Until Adobe supports syncing smart collections, you might be interested in Jeffrey Friedl's Lightroom Classic “Smart-Collection Sync” plugin.


Vidu Gunaratna
Participant
October 31, 2020

Hello LR team,

It would be good if smart collections could be synced to Lightroom too. Not just the conventional collections. And the same goes to collection sets... Enable to sync a whole set.

Thank you,

Vidu Gunaratna

Inspiring
October 26, 2020

Or just create a dumb collection with the same name as the Smart, then in the Smart select ALL, and drag and drop to the dumb. Do this as necessary (like when you want to show an image on your phone). Note: it will only copy over new images.

johnrellis
Legend
October 26, 2020

Or use the Any Source plugin.

Known Participant
October 26, 2020

Thanks - I'm using that plugin - works well for anyone looking for a workaround

October 26, 2020

There is a workaround:

(not sure if it's been mentioned already, because I can't search this thread only)

Use Jeffrey Friedls "Smart-Collection-Sync"-Plugin and then sync the mirrored/synced collection to mobile.

Then you might run into the next bug of the sort order, but the workaround for that is here:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-web-public-gallery-not-sorting-correctly/5f5f45c14b561a3d425df7b9

Inspiring
October 23, 2020

Or allow two collections with sync with each other 

Inspiring
October 4, 2020

The sooner this feature is available the better

Inspiring
September 3, 2020
this is a big bummer. I am just digging in deep with LRC and loving it but I need to ulpad smart collections to the cloud!
Known Participant
July 6, 2020
I just thought:

Hey I can have a smart collection to view all the new photos from a photo shoot on a tablet as they come in (LR Classic gets live jpgs via WiFi ).

And now its a "no, its not going to work" 😞