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0800-grizzly
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June 26, 2025
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Lightroom Classic not syncing "Shared with You" albums from Lightroom Web/Desktop/Cloud

  • June 26, 2025
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Hello,

We're investigating and testing workflows involving several people based on Lightroom Desktop/Cloud in the initial workflow and Lightroom Classic downstream in the process. Based on Adobe's documentation we thought we could "flow" images downstream to end up for final storage in LrC.

Now it however seems that albums that have been shared with a user are not syncing from that person's Desktop/Cloud environment to Classic. The albums shared show up perfectly in Desktop/Cloud, but do not get synced to Classic. Other albums do sync.

I could not find any settings, or mentioning of this online. Is this a known limitation of the syncing, or are we doing something wrong?

Rgds,

Björn

Correct answer johnrellis

Jim Wilde provided a workaround to this limitation in Björn's other post:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/lightroom-classic-not-syncing-shared-with-you-albums-from-lightroom-web-desktop-cloud.53044/


Best to continue any discussion there to make it easier on everyone to follow and for future readers.

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johnrellis
johnrellisCorrect answer
Legend
June 26, 2025

Jim Wilde provided a workaround to this limitation in Björn's other post:

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/lightroom-classic-not-syncing-shared-with-you-albums-from-lightroom-web-desktop-cloud.53044/


Best to continue any discussion there to make it easier on everyone to follow and for future readers.

Anshul_Saini
Community Manager
Anshul_SainiCommunity Manager
Community Manager
June 26, 2025

Hi Björn,


Thanks so much for reaching out. It's great to hear you’re exploring collaborative workflows across Lightroom platforms.
You’re absolutely right to expect a smooth flow between Lightroom (Cloud-based) and Lightroom Classic, but there’s a key limitation here that’s likely the root of what you’re seeing:
• At this time, albums that are shared with you by another user do not sync down to Lightroom Classic.
• Only albums and images that you originally added to the cloud ecosystem (Lightroom Web, Desktop, or Mobile) will sync to Classic.


I understand this may affect your team workflow, especially when trying to consolidate everything in Classic. A few workarounds teams often use include:
• Having one person act as the central “owner” who receives all assets and then syncs them to Classic.
• Or exporting and re-importing shared assets manually to Classic when needed.


I hope this helps!


Best,
Anshul Saini

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