P: Please add ability to Sync LR Classic Collection Sets

Absolutely, having started in Lr web and organised all of my photos into fodlers and albums, I then have to do it again in LrC?  Good news is that this is only a new idea that has been requested for something like seven years, we're still using Lr and so Adobe are right to ignore us!

What I want is:

1.  Absolute matching and structuring between Collection Sets and Folders, and between Collections and Albums, for goodness sake they are simply a way of organising photos...
2. Radical thought, you even call them the same thing!
3. Sync everything while you're at it!

I, too, would like to see the ability to share Collection SETS to Lightroom Web. I teach college-level digital photography. Lightroom Web is an excellent way for students to share photos with each other for peer review. However, every new assignment/collection has to be synced and shared anew each week. It would be a huge time saver if a Collection Set could be shared with the class, separated into the different collections for each assignment, without needing to setup the share each time. 

Other things that would enhance the student/teacher usage of Lightroom Web would be the ability to see each other's star ratings withOUT having to select an individual photo. When we made contact sheets, I had them setup the contact sheets with their star rating under each photo. This helped peer reviewers (and me!) review hundreds of photos quickly. I may have to return to contact sheets if Lightroom Web continues to require individual collection syncing (rather than Collection Sets). 

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Collection sets in LR Classic should sync to folders in LR CC and LR Mobile

The issue:

The sync between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic seems very unfinished to me. I understand they are different products, meant for different purposes but I think syncing between the two could really be improved, without drastically modifying each of the apps.

The idea to sync pictures from Classic to Mobile and vice-versa makes sense, it's nice to be able to find pictures you have stored in your desktop library when you're on the go on your mobile. And it makes sense that if you take pictures on the go, edit them on Lightroom Mobile, then they get synced back to your desktop.

The issue is the sync feature has so many limitations, it's virtually unusable if you don't want to find yourself in a big mess... Especially if you have a big photo library with thousands of pictures.

One thing I find particularly annoying is that collections set don't sync with Lightroom Mobile folders of albums. If you're trying to organize things nicely with a hierarchy of collections and collections sets, or albums and folders in Lightroom Mobile, then this structure just don't sync between the two.

As of now if you want to have a hierarchal structure of collections/albums that stays the same between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Mobile, you have to sync them manually. In 2023 this shouldn't be the case. Every cloud storage nowdays sync files and folders preserving the user's hierarchy.

So it makes sense that physical folders from Lightroom Classic don't sync with the cloud, because Lightroom Mobile doesn't work with folders and files. But collections (Lightroom Classic) and albums (Lightroom Mobile) could sync preserving hierarchy, cause both collections and albums are virtual folders referencing images.

The solution:

Stop syncing Lightroom Classic's collections to Lightroom Mobile's albums. Instead create a new organisational panel in Lightroom Classic, named Albums (could be located between the collection and the publish services in the left navigation panel in library module). This panel would replicate exactly the albums and folders structure of Lightroom Mobile. Then any pictures you place in an album would automatically sync to Lightroom Mobile, and pictures from Lightroom Mobile would arrive in Classic in this new Album panel, in their respective album/folder hierarchy. Also you would not even need to right click and toggle "sync collection" as everything in this new Album panel would automatically sync.

Then Collections would be for organizing pictures you don't want to be synced with the could and Albums would be for organizing pictures you want to sync with the cloud.

One could decide to not use Albums at all if they don't want to use the cloud feature. Or one could decide to not use Collections at all if they want everything to be synced with the cloud.

Basically it would just make everything clearer: one panel for local organization, one panel for cloud organization.

And one more thing: if Adobe decides one day they want to implement smart albums in Lightroom Mobile (which would be great by the way), then it would be much easier to sync them to Lightroom Classic. They would sync to the Albums panel, and wouldn't interfere with the smart collections. That would be great as I don't think a smart collection could ever sync with a smart album, as the way Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC organize files and manage metadata are completely different.