How are my iCloud photos getting into my LR storage?

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December 6, 2017
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I'm totally baffled. I know there is a setting somewhere but I can't find it.

My online LR storage, as well as my LR Mobile, has 2191 photos in it that are stored in iCloud and/or Photostream, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how they are getting there. They have capture dates as recent as a week ago and as far back as more than 10 years. It is NOT my whole iCloud photo library, and it is not the LR catalog that I use in LR Classic. THAT has over 35,000 photos in it.

It's driving me nuts. I have an iPhone, iPad, two iMacs and a MacBook that access the iCloud accout. But they do NOT all have LR installed.

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Correct answer john beardsworth

In LrMobile, is there any collection which is set to Auto Add? This would import anything added to Camera Roll.

john beardsworth

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In LrMobile, is there any collection which is set to Auto Add? This would import anything added to Camera Roll.

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dcwintonAuthor

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Yes. Thank you. That was it. So I turned that off in Settings and then did a delete all in the LR catalog.

Now I just have to figure out how to control the flow of what gets in there.

Thanks again.

john beardsworth

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You might enable it again, and only new photos in Camera Roll will be imported. That's easier than the alternative of importing just those you want.

Remember too that the photos imported from Camera Roll are copies, so you can just import them and delete those you don't want when they arrive in Lr "Classic".

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