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Synchronisieren von Bildern von Lightroom zu Lightroom Classic

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October 4, 2023
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Hallo liebe Community,

nach dem Aufräumen meines Desktops und der Festplatten können in Lightroom Classic einige Bilder nicht mehr gefunden werden (logisch, da gelöscht oder verschoben) und lassen sich somit ja nicht mehr bearbeiten. In Lightroom aber schon, was mir sagt, dass Lightroom die Bilder aus der Cloud zieht.

Gibt es eine Möglichkeit die Bilder nach Lightroom Classic zu synchronisieren?

Meine Cloud beinhaltet 9,5GB aber wenn ich in die Creative Cloud Desktop App reingehe werden mir keine Datein angezeigt. So ganz verstanden habe ich das mit der Cloud noch nicht...

Ein herzliches Dankeschön schonmal im voraus

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JohanElzenga

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There is a big difference between 'deleted' from your hard disk, and 'moved' so Lightroom Classic cannot find the image anymore. Images that were moved can be 'reconnected' in the catalog, so there is no need to recover these from the cloud. Here's how you do that: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-photos-missing-fix/

Images that were deleted from your disk, but are in the cloud somehow (how did they get there if you do not know how to sync from Lightroom Classic?) will indeed sync down if you enable sync of the Lightroom Classic catalog, but (depending on how many images you need to recover) it may be a better idea to export them from Lightroom 'as original' and then import them in Lightroom Classic. That way you can control what gets downloaded and what does not.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Patrick1337Author

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Hello Johan,

Sync is enabled. When I move pictures into a collection in lightroom Classic the whole collection gets synced.

My Case is the following:

I moved some pictures to my collection called "SPO" so I could edit them on my Tablet, while not at home, in lightroom.

Last week I decided to clean up my harddrives. I deleted some of them and some were just moved.

I don't have issues with finding pictures and wanting my pictures back. My point is that I don't get why I can't edit the pictures in lightroom classic because it says "pictures not found" but I can edit them in lightroom. And the question is can I sync pictures from lightroom to lightroom classic so I can edit them again in Classic? (for the case I deleted a file I didn't want to delete)

Saving them again as "original" and then Reimport them to classic is a good option, thx for that.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

"My point is that I don't get why I can't edit the pictures in lightroom classic because it says "pictures not found" but I can edit them in lightroom."

The explanation is as follows. Lightroom has its own copy in the cloud. It's only a smart preview of the image, but that is irrelevant in this case. So for Lightroom, the image is not 'missing' and that is why you can edit it. Lightroom Classic needs the original image however, and can't find it. If Lightroom Classic had a smart preview too, you would be able to edit it, but Lightroom Classic does not retain the smart previews it generates to sync. It will only build local smart previews if you tell it to do so.

"And the question is can I sync pictures from lightroom to lightroom classic so I can edit them again in Classic? (for the case I deleted a file I didn't want to delete)"

No, because Lightroom does not know you deleted it. As long as you did not remove it from the Lightroom Classic catalog (and don't do that, because that will delete it from the cloud too!!!), Lightroom does not care that Lightroom Classic cannot find the original. See above: that problem is irrelevant for Lightroom.

"Saving them again as "original" and then Reimport them to classic is a good option, thx for that."

The only problem is that if Lightroom only has a smart preview, then that is the only thing it can save as a new original. So you'll get a DNG image of 2560 pixels wide, not really the original image because Lightroom does not have that one. Better than nothing and probably the best you can do.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

My thoughts-

If the images in Lightroom (Cloud versions) were only images synced UP from Lightroom-Classic, then the Lightroom Cloud only has proxy Preview files, and not the full-size originals that you can recover.

Having now cleaned up your hard-drives you may well have deleted all your original files with the only option to restore is from a local file backup you had made.

I do not know if (smaller sized) photos can be recovered from (Cloud) Smart proxy Preview files.

The "Creative Cloud desktop app" does not show, or give access to, your photos in the 'Lightroom' ecosystem. It is a separate cloud location for files that is about to end. Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files

If your Lightroom Cloud does contain full-size files (ie Imported/added directly to Lr-mobile or Lr-desktop ) then the advice from @Jao vdL is correct. SYNC SETUP IN CLASSIC

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Yes you can turn on the sync in Lightroom Classic. It will download everything that is in the cloud to the catalog you enable syncing for. In Lightroom Classic go to the Lightroom Sync tab and enable it and make sure to check the location where it syncs to that that works with your Classic workflow.

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