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Steve NB
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December 12, 2018
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collection of collections in lightroom mobile

  • December 12, 2018
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I recently started experimenting with LR mobile.  My LR classic catlog on my imac has several nested collections.  I was disappointed to see the hierarchy for my collections was lost on LR mobile.  After some reading on LR mobile I see you can put the "ablums" (LR Classic collections) into "folders" and also folder in folders.  Am I missing something here?  Why not just preserve the nesting I already had?

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    selondon
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    selondonCommunity Expert
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    December 13, 2018

    Adobe’s Cloud Centric syncing infrastrucure dates back to 2011 with Adobe Carousel, afterwards renamed Revel. So the basis was already in place by the advent of Lightroom Mobile in 2014 and the syncing of collections from Lightroom 5 (I think). My guessing is that they didn’t want to complicate anything by adding any more variables to something that was working.

    Lightroom Mobile and Revel are the forerunners of the Lightroom CC ecosystem that exists today.

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    December 12, 2018

    You are not missing anything. Collection sets do not sync with folders in Lightroom CC.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    Steve NBAuthor
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    December 13, 2018

    Why did Adobe bother to come up with a different system of orginizing photos?  This makes little sense to me and just adds more work for the users.

    JohanElzenga
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    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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    December 13, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Cupertino%2C+Bangert  wrote

    Why did Adobe bother to come up with a different system of orginizing photos?  This makes little sense to me and just adds more work for the users.

    I don't know why. This is a user-to-user forum. We can help you with problems, but we are not Adobe employees and we cannot change Adobe policy.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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