P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

It would be really great if there was an option to select which pictures/folder to sync on for mobile sync. As a business owner with employees, I do not expect for them to download all of their personal pictures on their phones and certainly do not want employees to have access to all of my personal pictures and videos when using the company account. I believe it would provide significant more utility to segment which phones can be selected for sync in LR cc. 

Good morning Adobe Lightroom Crew, is there anyway you can add a feature of disabling syncing from Lightroom for iPad? I'm in the process of archiving about 1,200 images onto a hard drive, and my iPad has been downloading "the original file" for now 11 hours. What I think would be a great feature to add is a way of 1) disabling cloud syncing, 2) and then allowing the syncing of a specific folder(s) when a user desires it. I know it could present risk for me NOT to have something backed up and then working with the same images on other computers, but this a needed feature (or maybe call it a fix). Contact me if you have questions. I suspect I'm not the only person to have suggested the idea. Yours truly, Peter M, Boise

I would love to be able to selectively sync which photos I want in Cloud Storage. There is NO way to do this in Lightroom but you can do it Lightroom Classic. 

I'd like to be able to use Lightroom for Ipad without having to upload all raw files to Adobe's cloud.

I know that lightroom for Ipad is designed to have raw files stored in the cloud, but it works fine with just smart previews in the cloud when they're generated by Lighroom Classic on a desktop, and doesn't require full size raw images.  However, when I transfer raw images to my ipad, lightroom insists on putting the raw image in the cloud.  

As a wedding photographer, that might be 100 gbs per wedding - 2 to 4 days of uploading before its finished - even with an ethernet adapter connected.

Please Adobe, Ipads are now available with 2TB of strorage - give us the option to keep raw files on ipad and only upload smart-previews to the cloud if we absolutely have to upload anything.  You've built a piece of software that is equal to the desktop version - please enable us to just use it without waiting forever for enormous payloads to upload.

so ... I don't know what the hell is adobe. they fall asleep I think

Adding my name to those that are flabbergasted that this isn't a day one feature. I use Lightroom CC for personal projects and work related projects. I often take thousands of photos for work, but have no desire to have those photos on my other devices/taking up space in the cloud. On the other hand, I'd like to have my personal project photos available everywhere.

I'm currently sitting here waiting for Lr to sync 100s of work related photos before it finally gets to the photos I actually want to sync. It's been going for over an hour and probably has three or four more hours before it'll finally be done. That's most of a day just wasting energy, time and bandwidth on unecessary syncing. 

I see many replies saying "just use Lr Classic" but I've only ever used CC, and have no desire to learn an entirely new program just for one simple syncing option. It's incredibly frustrating to see Adobe employing these anti-consumer "features," trying to bottleneck people into paying for overpriced cloud storage and not being transparent about how our files are handled (don't get me started on Lr's file management, I just cleared 60gb of redundant files after finding a hidden folder where Lr had been making copies of every photo I import).

Making features only work if files are in the cloud is just...incredibly shortsighted, to put it nicely. Please add a selective sync option (on individual photos & entire albums/folders)

I also would appreciate the ability to selective sync. Sometimes I have key photos that I want uploaded accross the ecosystem, while others I may want to depiroritize or review before syncing. I have limited bandwidth and time and when I need to get something right away would be great to selectively sync, or prevent form syncing, certain photos or camera imports.

I'd love to be able to work with new Lightroom UI, but in the way the Classic offer, so directly on files, without importing everything to library and storing in Cloud / one big file locally.

For me, it's way easier and cheaper to handle sync and backup for my own, than stuck to what the app is offering.

@8510810

I see you merged my suggestion into this longer thread. The longer thread is about a much more complicated feature set, such as mixing/matching local and remote storage....

Mine is much more narrow in focus, instead of making the cache all or nothing for what is saved locally. Allow for a little user intelligence to be applied.

Tim

I am guessing like many others, I have a laptop or mobile device which is somewhat limited in storage, therefore it is not practical to download all smart previews or original images. At the same time, I do have a series of albums and folders which I am working or a date range.

Therefore, it would be nice to either define a date range or folder for which I want to cache locally.

Tim