Why are Virtual Copies added to "All Sync'd Photos"?

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Hey Everyone!

I use sync'd collections daily to share photos with clients etc and it makes total sense if I make a virtual copy within a collection that then that virtual copy would also get sync'd to the cloud BUT often when I'm finished editing a session I'll make duplicates of everything and turn them B&W and I do this inside the computer folder NOT inside of the collection. Lightroom Classic nevertheless still uploads those B&W versions to the cloud and adds them to All Sync'd Photographs. So they're not in any of my collections folders yet they get sync'd to the cloud and then I have to go there and delete them every single time.

Any wisdom as to why Adobe does this? I wish there was a toggle button to turn this off. If I want a Virtual Copy sync'd, I'd put it in the sync'd collection. Just an annoyance... maybe something they're not even aware is happening??

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Jim Wilde · Answer

I would guess that this is "as expected", i.e. when you create a VC of an image it gets all the attributes of the master image. So even though you are working from a folder, not a synced collection, the original image is synced which means that the VC would get that synced attribute as well.

But equally it could be bug, so we'll have to wait for Adobe to respond about that. In the meatime I can confirm that I do see that same behaviour on my Mac system.

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