Lightroom classic is not syncing SOME photos

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May 6, 2026
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I can not get all photos to sync to LRC. (Ver 15.3) I have 2 image that have synced but no others. There are over 600 in the album.

I have tryed everything I can find in the help section but can not get it to work

On a MacBook Pro. M4 machine.

Thanks.

BCserayAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the reply. Yes a see 2 photos that have synced but no others. When I open LRC it says syncing 2 photos but nothing happens.

No videos in the selection.

I’m stumped.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

I am not a heavy user of ‘Lightroom’ (desktop) and in the words of Rikk Flohr “ Every system and sync issue has its own idiosyncrasies”.

You mention “600 photos in an album”- That would be an album in Lightroom, but you must have more photos in the Cloud to occupy the 30Gb. You cannot selectively sync photos down from the cloud- it is an ‘all or nothing’ function, so I would expect your Lr-Classic dialog to show many more photos downloading. Do you have other photos that have successfully downloaded into the LrC catalog? ie. other than the 2 you see?

You see 2 photos that have synced- Are you seeing these photos in a Mac Finder window? ie. the Folder you have chosen for downloads. Post a screen-clip of the folders in Mac Finder.

You can check the LrC Preferences > Lightroom Sync tab to check for errors- Hold down the [OPT] key and click on [View Sync Status on Web]. See if you have any ‘Sync Issues’ there. It is not generally recommended to [Re-build Sync Data] but that may still be an option.

Your screen-clip of the aerobatics- Is that Lightroom-Desktop interface, or Lightroom-Web in a browser interface? (Looks like the Web interface.)

You might find some relevant answers in this article by Dan Harford-

SYNCING- Everything to know- Dan Hartford Photo

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Normally you would not need to do anything in Lightroom. Simply enable sync in Lightroom-Classic.

You have set a folder in LrC to download photos- That looks OK. Do you see any photos in that folder in the LrC catalog?

I am not sure where you see this dialog “Sync to Lightroom”- as it is not needed, or part of, automatically syncing files down to LrC:

You do have 30Gb of files in the Cloud- they will take considerable time to download depending on your internet speed.

I have seen one problem with my sync, and that was a movie clip. (Deleted, problem solved)

SYNC SETUP IN CLASSIC

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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