P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

How hard would it be to add the function of only cloud-syncing photos that I have, for instance, assigned 2 stars and above?

My workflow is to store all of my photos locally and use Lightroom CC to pick out the good ones, work on them and then assign a star rating. I am then able to use the excellent search function to view the best ones.

However, as it stands, because my archive is waaay larger than my alloted 100gb, my cloud storage is full, mainly with photos I don't need or want. I have therefore disabled the sync and it isn't able to do its basic job, that of syncing the photos that I want to sync.

Just a simple option to choose which pictures to sync, along the lines of the search function would make a world of difference to the functionality and usefulness of this software. eg. only sync pictures with a star rating equal to, or above 2.

Hi, I have Lightroom 4.3. Is there a way to use an only-local option to store images -- i.e., no copying to cloud? There seems to be a way to keep a copy locally, but not prevent copying to cloud. Apologies if this was already discussed/answered elsewhere. Thanks

Pablo,

I was wondering if you are using the option to only download smart previews on the iPad? If you aren’t this would resolve your space problem and allow you to have all of your images available on the iPad. 

The cloud syncing of Lightroom is an awesome feature, but I think that this would be a significant improvement and if it already exists, please let me know because the chat help agent wasn't useful.  I prefer to edit photos on my iPad but my new albums are not syncing because I am out of local memory  I have cleared cache, but what I'd like to be able to do is to select which albums are synced per device.  Maybe I want to have the "Apples" album on each device, but only push the "Oranges" album to my iPad, not my iPhone.  Or just to keep old albums on my Mac that has a ton of storage and memory.  Selective syncing would solve my personal issue and I would suspect that others would benefit from it greatly as well.

Hi Rick, yes they did but it's not exactly intuitive. Many thanks all the same.

@Jeremy Brown  Did my suggestion work for you?

I would support a "delete everywhere" option, for exactly this kind of use case, but it shouldn't be too easy to do accidentally.

Thanks for your help but you guys need to rethink this as the vast majority of people will not be pausing sync before selectively deleting files and then going into the library file system to select and delete them all over again, and as a result uploading thousands files they never want to see again. There should at least be an option for this when you select and delete files. There must be gigawatts of energy wasted on this daily.

At the top of your Albums list (left side) is a Deleted system album. (Between People and your First Album). You must delete them from that location after deleting from the active system. Did you do this? 

Hi Rick, I reject them, filter for rejected files, select all and delete them. I can't see them on the iPad, there is no obvious trash. I've been through every menu/setting etc. etc. still showing that it plans to sync 385 not 85 files. This should not be the default it's a massive waste of time and energy.