P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

@Jeremy Brown  Did you also delete them from the Deleted Items on the iPad? Delete is a two-step process

I dread to think how much energy Adobe wastes on this stupidity.

@Rikk sorry but there is no obvious way to do this in Lightroom mobile. I have 385 images with sync paused at moment. I only want 85 of them.

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This is beyond stupid. I use an iPad to download images from camera in the field and cull junk images with sync paused. This weekend I took 384 images, many duplicates etc. That I do not want. I deleted 300 of them with sync switched off but Lightroom still spends ages syncing the images I’ve laboriously checked and deleted when I turn sync back on. I also have back ups on SD cards there is no need for this waste of time, bandwidth, processing power and above all energy! Why are you wasting so much energy doing this, it’s scandalously stupid and wasteful, not to mention a total waste of your users time. Stop it ASAP.

No but I shouldn't have to, why would I want to spend time on syncing files I've deliberately deleted and also have on the original memory card? It's madness to be wasting money and energy on this scale. Adobe's carbon foot print syncing trash files must be staggering.

Did you also purge them from the Deleted Items prior to reinitiating sync?

So, my work flow away from home, most of time, involves importing images off card on to iPad and culling images before going through in more detail on Mac at home. So I might take 700 RAW images, like yesterday, cull down to less than 100 with syncing to cloud paused, and then switch sync back on. Lightroom then spends ages and  huge amounts of processing power, and ultimately producers hugely excesses CO2 emissions, pointlessly uploading all of the files I have deleted as well as the ones I want. Lightroom is literally producing 10 times the amount of CO2 than it needs, wasting huge amounts of my time and bandwidth doing this. Utterly pointless, please fix it there is no need for this sort of pointless redundancy and waste.

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Please consider to be able to add photos in offline mode, without making a copy of them. I imported an album into the cloud, but I had to free up space. If I want to store the pictures and edits locally, I have to download the whole data, meanwhile it is already present on my computer, since I imported it from there. The LR Classic solution (add photos, store edits in a library file, sync with cloud ONLY IF NEEDED) is much more usable and straightforward