P: Lightroom Ecosystem: Selective Sync

Using an imac, Some pictures are useful when they are uploaded to the cloud so that I can access them on all devices. But, some picture I just soley want to use on my desktop. Is it possible to select which ones can be uploaded?

There needs to be a way to archive or otherwise offline albums/photos to free up cloud space easily. Right now there is no good answer other than exporting everything, installing Lightroom “classic,” and managing it all there which makes Lightroom CC just a glorified Dropbox.

Especially  when you consider that I’m paying $30+ dollars a month for the apps that I use for personal projects, but don’t make money from, and the only upgrade options I found was to pay an extra $30 a month for 2TB of cloud storage (which is pretty steep - even Apple only charges $10 a month for that)

I only infrequently edit images taken on a mobile device using LightRoom desktop, and rarely if ever sync images from desktop to edit using the inferior controls and colour accuracy of my mobile. It makes no sense to have to sync every image to Adobe when all I want is one or two images at a time. Most people use other cloud storage and backup services to backup photos because Adobe's storage limit is tiny compared to the bundled huge storage limits of Microsoft and Google, and we don't want our professional image libraries cluttered with pictures of our pet duck. It makes no sense to duplicate the functionality of these better apps, particularly given how little control there is, and how dumb the features of lightroom's file organisation is comparatively. Even if it just synced library data and metadata and left the file management to us, that would be an improvement.

Selective sync on mobile is being requested for valid reasons, because it fits our use case.

Users should have choice, not be treated like idiots.

Currently it is a very bad idea to implement a selective sync, because you are in big trouble when you lost your local app or the mobile device, like it happen recently after a buggy LR mobile update. 

Adobe need to implement a foolproof method in LR Cloud/Mobile to have all originals AND edits stored locally inclusive a backup. On mobile devices this is an issue because a separation of app and data is not existing and a selective restore is not existing as well, which Adobe cannot easily change. On a PC or Mac it is possible for Adobe to implement it, but there are a lot of users with mobile devices only. When traveling you do not have this desktop backup anyway. 

And what happen when you loose your mobile device or destroy it, without synced pictures?

For professionals it would be a better idea to implement a real two way sync including ALL meta data in LR Classic. When you add pictures in LR Classic on a desktop you can select the pictures for sync and when you add pictures on your mobile these pictures are automatically synced until you are back on your desktop and change the sync flag, after your backup has finished.

Anyone know a way to have certain things not sync to the cloud?

I would like to be able to choose certain albums and folders to "Not Sync".  Letting them just be stored locally and not on the cloud.  Similar to drop box "smart sync" function. This would allow me to use LR for my entire workflow.