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shutterguy
shutterguy
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March 20, 2018
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How to batch remove unsynced photos from cloud?

  • March 20, 2018
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Hello,

I'm using Lightroom Classic CC and have been using the equivalent product for years before the split between Classic and the new web based one.

I have noticed an issue recently when I stop syncing a collection, the collection name itself disappears, but the photos stay on the cloud without being in a collection or an album. The photos show up only in the "All Photos" folder. Is there a way to easily remove these photos from the cloud?

See screenshot below. I currently have only 1 album of approximately 100 photos set to sync, yet I have an extra 2900 photos synced that I long ago selected to not sync that I do not wish to have synced.

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    Correct answer Jao vdL

    Try removing them from the all synced photographs collection in Classic. The trick is to go into your synced St Patrick's Day 2018 collection. Do a select all there to select all 100 images. Switch to "All Synced Photographs". The 100 images from St. Patrick's Day should stay selected. Then from the "Edit" menu, do a "invert selection". You should now have all synced images selected that are not in "St. Patrick's Day". Now hit delete to remove these images from the "All Synced Photographs" to make them stop syncing.

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    Jao vdLCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 20, 2018

    Try removing them from the all synced photographs collection in Classic. The trick is to go into your synced St Patrick's Day 2018 collection. Do a select all there to select all 100 images. Switch to "All Synced Photographs". The 100 images from St. Patrick's Day should stay selected. Then from the "Edit" menu, do a "invert selection". You should now have all synced images selected that are not in "St. Patrick's Day". Now hit delete to remove these images from the "All Synced Photographs" to make them stop syncing.

    shutterguy
    shutterguyAuthor
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    March 20, 2018

    Thanks, that did the job. It took me a bit to find the "All Synced Photographs" as I was looking for in the collections. For anyone else coming across this thread, it's located in the catalog portion right below the navigator.

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