Move an album from cloud to local

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March 23, 2025
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Good morning everyone, today I activated Lightroom and created the first album that I'm already working on. However, I realized that the album was put on the cloud while I would like it locally in a specific path but I can't move or copy the album locally to continue working on it in this mode. Can anyone help me? Thanks everyone for your attention.

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Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

"if I were to stop accessing lightroom I would lose everything, am I right?", Basically, yes, unless you have first downloaded local copies.

@Ian Lyons I am not sure that photos set to be "Offline" will be 'permanent' if a subscription is cancelled. I understood that offline photos will be deleted if the online 'cloud' version is deleted or is no longer available.

If a subscription is cancelled, I understood that photos must be downloaded either by Exporting from Lightroom, or using the Downloader App (with a time limit after a subscription is camcelled)

Any clarification would be helpful. Thanks

Rob

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Albums are only available in Cloud mode for the Lightroom app on a Mac or PC. Your imported (added) photos are stored in the Cloud. Albums are only created lists of selected photos you have imported to the Cloud.

In 'Local' mode you are only using the most basic finder browser to view files you have in your Mac system- there is no correlation between 'Cloud' and 'Local'.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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paolo_6654Author

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Thanks for the reply, so if I were to stop accessing lightroom I would lose everything, am I right?

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

Are you using Lightroom (cloud focused version) or Lightroom Classic?

If Lightroom, then you can download the album and it's contents to your computer using the the 3-dot menu just below and to left of the cloud icon at top right corner of the application UI. I've attached some screenshots that might help.

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