Skip to main content
HannahFP
Participant
December 9, 2022
Question

Lightroom app won't export to files

  • December 9, 2022
  • 2 replies
  • 372 views

I've been using Lightroom mobile for a year now and have exhausted all work arounds to solve this. The last agent on the phone said this is basically my only option to fix this. 

I have over 900 raw pictures I need to get off my lightroom app. They are taking up so much storage on my phone I can't simply save them to my phone and move them. The downloader on my computer is sort of a work around, but it's ridiculous. I shouldn't have to upgrade my wifi package and wait literal days and hours to get pictures from my phone to my hard drive.

Basically I'm missing the "export to files" option that others have on their apps. I can get pictures from my sd card to my phone but not vice versa. I think it's ridiculous this isn't an option on the top of the line photography app that I've been paying for for years. I know I could just use the computer. I know I could use the cloud and the downloader. I know I could upgrade cloud storage and waste MORE money just trying to retrieve my own pictures off my device I own and app I pay for already. Or the app could actually work like it's supposed to and not waste hours of my life.

The version of the app I'm using is 8.0.1 and I'm on a samsung s21 ultra that's only a year old, everything is up to date every time I check for a bug fix.

This topic has been closed for replies.

2 replies

HannahFP
HannahFPAuthor
Participant
December 12, 2022

Update: after two days of downloading from the cloud, turns out it was saving raw, not edited pictures, which I already had backed up. Honestly so upset and shocked at how awful this whole process is for an adobe product. I now have to go edit 600 pictures if I want them saved to my hard drive.

 

HannahFP
HannahFPAuthor
Participant
December 12, 2022

Another update! I didn't realize I had to import into lightroom and export the files to see the edits. Still an insane amount of extra work but I still have the edits.

 

Community Expert
December 9, 2022

I don't know how this works on Android, but on my iPhone, I can mount a smb fileshare (windows filesharing) in the files app and export directly to it from Lightroom. The files get transported straight to the share on my computer that way without having to go through the cloud. I'd imagine you should be able to do the same on Android.

HannahFP
HannahFPAuthor
Participant
December 12, 2022

I'm not sure what that is, how would I find something like that?