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

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October 19, 2017
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Lightroom Classic, like Lightroom CC (what a confusion this naming causes!) should be able to upload full raw files to the cloud and not just smart previews. This is clearly a missing feature. This is especially handy if you mainly use Lightroom Classic because of its much more powerful editing and ability to actually print but would love to edit the full image from other machines.

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Jim,

Thanks again for your help - this time you answered my question 8 months ago! I did some searching on the virtual copies issue and found this:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-cc-makes-virtual-copies-in-lightroo...

Appreciate your expertise!

Dave

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Jim,

Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated. I've done some testing as well this morning (on macOS Mojava 10.14.2, w latest LR CC Classic and latest LR CC. Here's what I've found:

1) Uploading a RAW image that was already edited in LR CC cloud and o LR CC cloud did work, in that a) no duplicate was created in LR CC cloud and b) edits were retained. However...

2) My camera is set to save both JPEG and RAW files, and LR CC Classic recognizes the JPEGs as sidecar files so does not display them as duplicates. LR CC cloud does display JPEGs with same filename as RAW as duplicate images. This will create some hassle since my one of my cameras (X100F) creates only JPEGs in certain modes so I can't just trash all JPEGs before uploading to LR CC cloud. And...

3) After uploading a RAW image from LR CC Classic to LR CC cloud, on the next sync LR CC Classic creates a virtual copy of the RAW image. Strange and a bit of a mess.

Any thoughts on how to prevent Classic from creating a virtual copy of RAW files uploaded to LR CC cloud?

I'd just like to be able to:

1) Edit images captured on my camera on both Classic and CC (mainly Classic), but like the benefits of CC esp when out and about.

2) Edit images captured on my phone on both Classic and CC.

Thanks again -

Dave

Jim Wilde

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Things may have moved on since that original post from Victoria (12 months ago). Testing today (on Windows 10) I found that using that method to replace the initial smart previews with the originals still worked well, even if I had saved to XMP first (both proprietary Raw and DNG files). All uploaded OK from LRCC, no duplicates were created.

But, because it's not an officially documented and supported procedure, as Victoria mentioned it could break at any time.

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Victoria,

Thanks for your help with this.

"when you then try to add the same photos to LRCC through it's normal Add Photos dialog, it'll let you add them but won't (shouldn't!) create duplicate files. It should just go ahead and upload the originals. It's not officially documented, and could break at any time, but right now it works as long as you haven't changed the originals (e.g. written to xmp, etc)"

And if I've written to xmp...uploading will create duplicates?

In that case, any advice? Maybe sync / download everything to Classic, delete all from cloud and start over?

Dave

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the9thlion

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Agreed. Also on that note there should be an option to only keep smart previews of mobile photos on the cloud for those who don't want to or can't afford to pay extra for Adobe's cloud storage.

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I think there could be this quick update where I can sync the original raw data from Lightroom classic CC to Lightroom CC. I can sync raw photos from my phone to Lightroom classic, but I only get smart previews when syncing raw photos from Lightroom classic CC to my phone.

SpenceInATX

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Please add full upload function for classic to cc. So annoying to work with smart previews when on the go! How is this not already a thing...

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Madebyvadim9247224

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Full raw files is not possible to import to Lightroom CC for iPad from Lightroom Classic Desktop app
Please allow to upload full size raw files to iPad Pro Lighroom CC, NOT just Smart Preview 2048px “raw”.
Think about pro/semi pro photogratgers who is trying to integrate new mobile workflow into thier pipeline. There is a capable machines like new Apple IPad Pro 2018 which are more the capable to edit full raw files. In fact you can export full raw files but the proccess is so frustrating and ... honestly bad... that it’s almost unusable.
We are fine to rate and select and even edit TO SOME DEGREE your Smart Previews, but when the serious work srarts WE NEED FULL RAW.
So just, for crying out loud, create one button that will allow to import full Raw of selected files into Lightroom CC ipad.

You announced the full Photoshop version in 2019 with capabilities to work with 3gb psb files how do You expect us to pipeline this without access to full faw files?
Edit smart previews then go to desktop, save it, send it to ipad and then work on Photoshop ? A bit silly and 2000’s don’t you think ?
Why not just made one button for full raw extopt of selected files from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Cc for iPad. It would be so much easy and makes it finally a working solution for pro/semi pro user, not just Instagram blogers.
Thank you.