P: Should be able to Sync full raw files to the cloud, not just smart previews

If the photos are showing as smart previews in Cloudy (having been synced with Classic), then importing them into Cloudy from the existing location should work. Perhaps there's something different in the workflow, perhaps the photos in a different folder?

Yes. That is the workflow that I am using. But, what do I do with the thousands of photos have already worked on in Classic?  Will I not lose all my edits?

Okay.  I will make a thread.  Or, perhaps, I am misunderstanding the cause of the issue. Whenever I attempt to reimport (add photos) with Lightroom Desktop CC the ADD photos button quickly turns from blue to grey, presumably detecting duplicates and preventing the operation.  I will try to repro in a new thread. Thanks!

> The problem is compounded by the removal of a feature in Lightroom Desktop CC, which used to allow one to reimport the photos and force the originals to be synced to the cloud's archive.

This is still working as expected for me, so further details in a separate thread (just on the original replacement being broken) would be worthwhile, if you can still repro.

Fascinating nobody from LR product management seem to care about it. Cloud storage plus an API vendors can integrate against us such an obvious fundamental market gap.

Allow Lightroom Classic to sync the original files, instead of smart previews.  This feature is so obvious and its absence is very frustrating.  The workarounds are unsatisfactory and should be unnecessary.

The problem is compounded by the removal of a feature in Lightroom Desktop CC, which used to allow one to reimport the photos and force the originals to be synced to the cloud's archive.

Hi Jerry,

Your situation is another example how LR does not respond to a photographer's need. But Adobe has already said it over and over: don't expect any Cloud update do LRC, so you're stuck with what's there: Classic for editing and cataloging.

However: When you edit them in LRC, the edits DO get synced to AC (if you haven't unsynced them, obviously).

So why not this workflow:

1. Import through AC (being mobile or web) in order to have the full res files in AC
2. Wait for LRC to sync all those image -yes, this takes ages- and there is no alternatives yet
   
3. Edit, sync and organize in LRC

So you have best of both worlds: full res in AC and full control in LRC

(note, this is roughly my workflow when I'm on the field, but here are still lots of design issues they need to deal with. So basically, I'm not using LR on the field anymore)

Hope it helps 😉

Definitions: LR = Lightroom, LRC = Lightroom Classic, & AC = Adobe Cloud

As of now, in order to get photos to AC, you have to put the photos in LR. Then, to edit them (comprehensively), you needs to sync them in LRC using Smart Collections (??). Then after you edit them in LRC, they DO NOT go back to the AC unless you manually put them there (a process that is extremely confusing); thus they are stuck on your hard drive taking up space that you do not have and then you cannot share them (if it is possible, it is not intuative).

There needs to be a way for LRC to communicate DIRECTLY with AC, edit the photos, and then to save the photos DIRECTLY to the cloud without jumping through whoops, using two apps to get ONE JOB done.

I put mine under the same master folder where all my other images are.  

Hi, where should I put my Lightroom CC sync folder? I have it set in Dropbox, but that does not work well. Any suggestions?