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wayneh92496952
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January 12, 2018
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Editing in LRM to Cloud to LR CC 2018

  • January 12, 2018
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I have been having trouble with my LR CC Catalog in that when I view my images (34,000) I was seeing image by image being reverted back from its LRM edited state to the original image.

I called Adobe three times. Shared screens. Setup new catalogues. Imported photos. The images looked like the edited ones on LR CC Desktop but one by one gradually they are replaced by the unedited original. Seems like months of work down the drain. These images were originally imported into LR CC Desktop from files on my MacBookPro and are not images taken with a device like iPhone.

Ultimately, one of the Adobe people told me to Delete my Collections in Cloud. I did this. Relaunched the Catalog (which was new) and the images looked fine...for about an hour and one by one they are the old unedited ones, except for the edited photos done by LR CC desktop or PS.

I am now assuming that when LRM sends the edited image to the Cloud and then back down to the LR CC Desktop it does not permanently change the LR CC Desktop image by replacing it with the edited LRM image. I assume that this is because just the Smart Preview gets uploaded by LRM to Cloud.

Is this correct? Is there any way of restoring my edited images on LR CC Desktop or is that all history now?

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Theresa J
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Theresa JCommunity Expert
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January 12, 2018

I’m going to prefice my answer by saying that I haven’t actually tried this yet myself for good reason.

My understanding is that everything imported into LrCC (the mobile version for the desktop) gets uploaded to the cloud. The edits and images reside in the cloud and take priority over anything you do on your desktop. It is therefore recommend that you don’t use both Lr CC and Lightroom Classic, and if you do, don’t put the same images into both. You end up with one copy on your computer, and one in the cloud. It sounds like this is what you are trying to do. When you make edits with Lr CC, or Lr Mobile those edits stay in the cloud and they do not sync back up with Lightroom Classic.

If you want your images and edits to reside on your computer than you should only use Lightroom Classic. It is still possible to sync selective collections for mobile editing if that is important to you.

Your desktop images and edits are probably still on your computer. You just need to find and open the catalog where you did the edits.

Can you clarify what type of catalog you are viewing on your computer? Is it the new Lightroom CC, or Lightroom Classic which is the rebranded older version of Lightroom?

wayneh92496952
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January 12, 2018

Thank you Theresa for taking the time to write to me. I am using Adobe LR Classic CC v 7.1

I find this all confusing since it says it is LR Classic but also says it is LR CC. I am not sure which it is.

Also I find it confusing that when updates come along it seems that the Adobe Creative Cloud icon on my menu bar on my desktop (MacOS X) it seems to be asking more or even more firmly requiring me to download Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC. I end up upgrading both.

So, I am not sure where my LRM edits have gone. They appear on my desktop LR Classic CC but then individually march along reverting back to the original pre-edited version. I watch all my work slowly one by one "disappear". Are any of those edited LRM images on my computer? Can I get them back? Since I deleted my Creative Cloud photo library are they lost? What is also confusing to me is that if I lost everything when deleting the Cloud library why can I see any of the LRM edited images on my desktop at all? Why wouldn't they open all reverted in their original state and not torture me by appearing OK only to click one by one to their original state?

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MelissaLA88
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January 12, 2018

Great advice from Theresa J up top!

I made this very quickly, but it may help you determine which is which:

Also notice the slightly curved and lighter colored border for Adobe Lightroom CC.

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