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Inspiring
October 19, 2017
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P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

  • October 19, 2017
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I'm not a professional and have only used Lightroom for less than a year. I do love the redesign and I want to use it but I don't like the auto-sync. How hard would it be to implement an option that prevents auto sync and instead enables manual sync? 

My idea is to add a manual sync option in the settings and when you want a photo to be uploaded to the cloud you should be able to click on the cloud button and hit "Sync" or "Upload". Taking away people's ability to choose doesn't just scare away the pros but also the beginners. 
Also, some advanced features from the original Lightroom need to be added. One of them is the export function. The new export function is terrible. I only see "Small, Full Size, and Custom". The original Lightroom has a lot more export functions.

148 replies

Inspiring
November 10, 2018
The storage price is too high and I just don't need all my Photos in the cloud. I have Terabytes of Raw Images. It would take months to upload them. Maybe I could split my photo library into multiple libraries and just upload one of them, but I want everything in one place. So I will stay with Lightroom 6 (2015) as long as possible.
siuolly
Participant
November 9, 2018
Like others said I want to select things I want to sync on the cloud because your storage price is crazy insane and I don’t want to work with both classic and Lightroom CC at the same tine.
Inspiring
October 28, 2018
Yes this is an auto import issue. Just go into Lightroom on your phone, click on the ... At the top right corner, -> settings -> import -> turn off "auto add from camera roll". When you want to edit a photo in LR you'll add it from your camera roll from the main screen in LR and it will be added to your cloud storage.
Inspiring
October 28, 2018
That's what I've done now. I was under the impression that the app would only auto import images clicked by the camera or camera apps. As of now, it imports all images that make their way into the Android Gallery on the phone and this includes all the useless memes that are passed around on whatsapp. This is where auto import of only albums designated by the user would make sense.
Inspiring
October 28, 2018
You can turn off auto import in Lightroom Mobile and then choose which photos to import. Are were you looking for a way to select a specific album in Photos to import from? I believe that may be an iOS limitation.
Inspiring
October 27, 2018
Oh man that would drive me nuts. Surely the devs thought of that?
Inspiring
October 27, 2018
I use LR CC mainly on my phone. I am on a lot of Whatsapp groups which on any given day send 100s of irrelevant pictures/memes/mailers etc. All these land up in my phone gallery and get synced to my Creative Cloud account automatically. I don't want that. Can I have control over what I need to be synced to cloud since I'm paying for that?
October 21, 2018
Good suggestion.
Inspiring
September 20, 2018
Agreed. For $10/month we get 2TB to share in iCloud with Apple Photos. I’m curious to see how LR CC develops, but long term, I will not pay $20 / month for the features in both CC and Classic and the 1 TB of storage.
Inspiring
September 20, 2018
As suggested by others I'd like a Hybrid solution so that I can use the cloud selectively and not for my whole library.