Thanks yet again. So when I pause synch in CC, are photos really not going to the cloud? Something has to be managing them on my hard disk? Looks like the learning curve is much easier on CC. But again, I dont want pics on the cloud.
joddr38413230 wrote:
“So when I pause synch in CC, are photos really not going to the cloud? Something has to be managing them on my hard disk? Looks like the learning curve is much easier on CC. But again, I dont want pics on the cloud.”
Lightroom (not Classic) is completely architected around syncing to the cloud, so images you import are normally uploaded as soon as possible to your master Lightroom Photos storage in the cloud. If you pause uploading, the effect is that images you import continue to be held in the upload queue indefinitely, but that is not how it was designed to work long term.
In addition, some of the neat features like automatic tagging may be performed on photos on the server. For example, Adobe says “When the People View feature is enabled, Lightroom desktop and Lightroom for mobile (iOS and Android) analyze photos in the cloud to detect people to form clusters in People view.” – from Find And Organize Photos Of People in The People View in Lightroom Help. So that feature might not be available if you have no photos in the cloud.
If you do not want photos in the cloud, use Lightroom Classic and never enable sync. That will work fine, since Lightroom Classic is designed so that master storage is local to your computer.
The reason Lightroom has no catalogs is that its cloud-based master storage is a single store of cloud photos per Creative Cloud account. There is no provision for multiple “catalogs” or image stores in Lightroom Photos. If you want to subdivide that, you create albums and folders of albums. Similarly, if you did decide to sync Lightroom Classic, only one catalog can be synced to only one Creative Cloud account.
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