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JeffRUK
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October 26, 2026
Question

Lightroom as the master syncing to Lightroom Classic seems to have a problem with "Edited"?

Hi.  I am using Lightroom (Lr) and Lightroom Classic (LrC) on a Windows 11 PC.  I use Lr as my master, to add and edit photos in the cloud, and then LrC syncs them to my PC.  I am only using LrC when I need a more sophisticated search function (or similar), and avoid editing with it, mostly to avoid confusing myself about the location of the master copy.  This has been working fine for a few months, but in the last couple of days something has changed: there is now a mismatch between what Lr and LrC regard as edited photos.  For example, if I do a filter search in Lr and LrC for the total number of photos I have for a particular camera, then they both agree on the number.  If I then add ‘Edited is true’ or ‘Edited is false’ to the filters, then Lr and LrC give me different numbers.  LrC’s number of edited photos is higher than Lr’s and from my point of view LrC’s is incorrect.  It counts photos I have not edited as edited.  It’s like LrC is seeing something that Lr is doing as an edit, but I am not sure what that is.  I have tried reading the metadata from the file, but while this resolves the situation where LrC incorrectly thinks a photo has been edited, it also marks edited photos as not edited, so that is not a solution.  It seems like a bug to me but I wonder if anyone has come across this problem.  Note that my network bandwidth is not an issue and both Lr and LrC show their syncs are all up to date and complete.

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    JeffRUKAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2026

    This was an addendum to my reply to Srishti Bali but I put it in the wrong place:

    I will add that the total items in the Lr cloud catalog is the same as the total items in the LrC catalog on my PC.  So the sync is working from that point of view. It is just the edited / not edited status that has changed.  LrC seems to be seeing every photo coming from Lr as being edited.

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    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 26, 2026

    Hi ​@JeffRUK 

     

    Thanks for sharing the detailed explanation of your workflow. I understand that Lightroom and Lightroom Classic are showing different counts for edited photos. To help us investigate this further, could you please share a few additional details?

    1. Which versions of Lightroom and Lightroom Classic are you currently using? You can find this information under Help > System Info.

    2. Did you notice this behavior after a recent update to either application, or did it begin without any apparent changes?

    3. Does this happen across all albums and folders, or only certain ones (such as photos from specific cameras or file formats)?

    4. Could you share screenshots or a short screen recording demonstrating the discrepancy between Lightroom and Lightroom Classic?

    5. Could you also share the diagnostic logs from Lightroom Classic? To generate them, go to Edit > Preferences > General, hold down the Alt key to reveal the diagnostic log option, and click it. Once generated, upload the logs to a cloud storage service such as Google Drive or Dropbox and share a download link here. 

    These details will help us better understand the discrepancy and investigate what might be causing the difference in edit status between the two applications.

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    Thanks, Srishti Bali | Community & Engagement Strategist, Digital Imaging | Adobe
    JeffRUKAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2026

    Hi Sristi Bali

    Thanks for responding.  As you will see when you get to number 4 below that things have become worse (or perhaps clearer).

    1. They are the latest versions: Lr = 9.6 and LrC = 15.6
    2. I don’t think there was an update, but if there was, I didn’t notice it.  The change to the way it was doing things seemed to come out of nowhere so it does feel as if there was an update.  What happens in 4 below also suggest strongly to me that the sync between Lr and LrC especially with regard to the cloud to PC direction has been changed.
    3. I have 3 cameras and it does it for all of them and any Lr Album or LrC Collection.
    4. I chatted with one of your colleagues yesterday and they remotely accessed my PC​​​​​​ and saw the problem.  We imported two simple images (two photos taken with my iPhone) from a file folder on my PC into Lr.  They showed up in Lr as ‘not edited’ as you’d expect.  After they had synched to LrC on my PC they then showed up in LrC as ‘edited’.  I don’t think your colleague knew why.  He/she went on to re-create my LrC catalog from scratch.  This led to another issue.  All photos synched from Lr now show up in LrC as edited (e.g. when I use the metadata to filter for a camera it shows I have X number of edited photos and 0 unedited; if i look at all photos, then they are all regarded as ‘edited’) regardless of whether I edited them in Lr.  In fact the only items that show up in this re-created catalog as unedited are videos.  It seems clear something in the sync of cloud to LrC is not right.
    5. Should I do some action before generating that log or just create it now?  I ask because I suspect LrC “thinks” it hasn’t done anything wrong.

    I note that the Metadata Status of the photos in LrC all say “Has been changed”.

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