P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

I’ll speak from my own experience, but LR Classic is missing hugely in the Sync department. You can’t Sync hierarchy or tags between Mobile and Classic. You can’t Sync presets to mobile, you have to manually add them via LRCC Desktop. You can’t sync folders or collection sets. And using two computers is a huge pain if you’re using Classic. You can’t access original images from Mobile if you synced them from Classic. And there’s no easy way to sync all your photos from Classic to Mobile.

And I don’t think those complaints are unusual. Here’s my own post as well as others on these topics. Plus folks have been asking for expanded Sync features in Classic since before CC Desktop existed.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photos...

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https://feedback.photoshop.com/photos...

All of the requests are taken seriously, but it's not like rubbing a bottle to get a genie to appear to grant your wishes. Sync needs to be completely rock solid before they consider making it even more complex, and most of the customers who want selective sync also need other more advanced features which could do with being in place first.

It's unusual to see people complaining that Classic doesn't have features that CC does... what is Classic missing for you?

This is the second most popular request thread in the Lightroom CC category - and yet, apart from one clarifying comment from "Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion" above - absolutely ZERO response or action from Adobe themselves or Moderators.

So folks - get the message? - no point contributing and commenting here for anything - let alone for a mighty handy improvement to their Lightroom CC offering by enabling some sort of selective sync.

Victoria's clarifier above is fine for consumers - but hopeless for serious photographers with huge photo collections.  Yes - Lightroom Classic is an alternative [and the only usable one for photographers] ... however it lacks several features currently available only in LR CC see the Adobe website for details. https://www.adobe.com/africa/products/photoshop-lightroom-classic/lightroom-cc-vs-lightroom-classic.html

Un-subscribing from this forum - views are clearly not taken seriously by developers.

Just as a general comment, in this era of A.I. and superpowerful hardware the sync of Lightroom feels like stoneage to me. I wonder if they are aware of this and working to fix it or if they just think it is good enough.

> As is it is right now, the LR storage starts to exceed the phone storage of most phones,

Michael, just to be clear, phones don't download all of the files. They only download the metadata initially, then thumbnails as needed, then small smart previews as needed. They don't download originals unless you ask it to, and you can clear the smart preview cache to free up space too.

You must have selective sync and do it yesterday.  As is it is right now, the LR storage starts to exceed the phone storage of most phones, Over 20% of my storage is occupied by Lr and I am not happy about that.  Perhaps a pro would, but not a casual user. I am thinking of not renewing just because of this.  Just because you compete with Icloud, dropbox, ever and onedrive, you should not coerce your customer to go to your server but that is what you in essence are doing. Fix it soon or I will hit my delete button and not renew.  Sorry, there are other open source photo editors.

That's not the only thing missing. Keywords also do not sync (because there is no keyword hierarchy in CC/mobile), nor do collection hierarchy.

There are also other sync features that are missing in Classic. I have outlined the ones that matter to me in this post: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/a-more-robust-lightroom-classic-sync

It works pretty well with just the smart previews that Lightroom Classic syncs and if you import on the road on your iPad, the images get synced down to Classic. Only thing missing is to enable full raw sync from Classic which I asked for here:https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-classic-should-be-able-to-sync-full... Make sure you add to vote to it as it would be the perfect way to do this. 

Thats true, but I want the cloud feature, because sometimes I want to develop and manage photos from my library on my iPad, when I'm "on the road".

Mathias, Lightroom Classic is the evolution of Lightroom 6 and does exactly what you want. No need to think about moving to Lightroom cc. For most people Lightroom cc is not a viable option. It might be somewhere in the distance future but that’s a long way away. Mean time Lightroom Classic is getting a lot of development and new features.