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Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
September 27, 2024
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P: Give us 4 cloud sync options (original, lossless dng, lossy dng, smartpreview) to chose.

  • September 27, 2024
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I would like to use Adobe Cloud as emergency, 4th redundant, offsite backup solution. I do have the 1TB plan, but that is not enough for my RAW files, I don't want to pay more and I don't have the upload capacity for that anyway.

 

What is realistic is pushing lossy compressed dngs to the cloud, as a last resort they still have great quality  and are very small and quick enough to upload with my slow third world (Germany) connection.

 

The current system is very cumbersome to use, I have to duplicated my photos into lossy dng, have them recognized with LR classic so it won't redownload them and upload them with LR CC. In the end all my photos are there twice in Classic and the cloud, showing up double when I search for things. No sync between original files and lossy backup. It's just not practical.

 

What would be practical would be an option to chose how to sync per collection, if it should upload the originals, smart previews, lossless dng or lossy dng. Like LR Classic is doing at the moment (with smart previews or originals), just more options and a menu to chose what to do.

 

Would be so much more practical and useful.

3 replies

Participant
June 25, 2025

I woud love to see a Lightroom (not Classic) feature that allows the creation and uploading of smart previews to the Adobe cloud instead of full-resolution originals. This would have the benefit of significantly reduing the transfer time as well as consuming far less storage on the Adobe site. 

 

I would like to completely switch from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Desktop (Cloud) and this is the only thing that is stopping me because I do not use the Lightroom Classic Map, Book, Slideshow, or Web modules.

 

I also do not like the idea of storing my full-resolution originals on Adobe's site. I don't trust any site that transfers and stores my original data un-encrypted. I don't have that much of a problem with un-encrypted smart previews since their size is significantly smaller. 

Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
September 28, 2024

Well as long as you upload your originals with anything else but Classic, Classic can still handle them

Community Expert
September 28, 2024

Completely agree. I've had a feauture request for more flexible full raw sync from Classic that is related to this request since 2017: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-should-be-able-to-sync-full-raw-files-to-the-cloud-not-just-smart-previews/idi-p/12248616