Lightroom CC Android. sd card not available for storage

On every android I've had, multiple LG phones, Lenovo and other tablets, this export to sd has not seemed possible. I've found a way by sharing to a file manager, but very cumbersome compared to direct export. These devices have ranged from Android 4.4, Android 6+, and now Android 10...no luck. It almost seems adobe is biased toward apple since I-phones previously have included a great amount of internal storage space. I admittedly haven't tried to format my large SD card in android 10 to have the ability to act as memory extension rather than storage only, and not going to. If other programmers can do this as individuals, why can't Adobe? They have a team that has written the most used and debatedly the most successful photo editing software available. To me this not very understandable to say the least. I will continue to use Adobe on my computer, but have uninstalled my Adobe apps on my new Tablet and phone.

I am being driven crazy by this. The whole thing is so maddening I may have to stop using it. If you take a lot of photos you cannot be in perpetual sync mode. And the internal storage thing -- regardless of setting -- has me so frustrated I almost want to stomp on this new phone. Stop making things so "smart." I hate it. It makes what were simple tasks seem like climbing mount everest [the perpetual rabbit holes and learning curves are that steep]. Five times a day I discover new annoying things that take hours to solve.....and all a result of autosync. please listen. Nobody wants this crap.

I solved it in a rather unintuitive and time consuming way. I used a Samsung S2 android for editing and backing up on location in Laos and norteast Thailand. I imported the pictures to the external card with ES file explorer. After that I imported the pics into Lightroom mobile. I would much more prefer to import straight to LR into a folder named by me (date and subject). Back home I´d like to just import the folder into my lightroom CC (classic), erase the folders on Samsung S2 and let the folder I imported on LR cc be the new "original". For me that would be a straightforward workflow. As for now I got a folder in LR cc wich I consider my "original" but its still synced to LR mobile. so if I erase the files on the Samsung.... will the new original folder on my stationary computer be unaffected?

'Regards Peter

samsung s2 android. Can´t import onto the sd Card. and not enough room om the internal memory... Tried through Lr and it seemd to work but no... and no explanations at all... really irritating. Adobe should make an effort to solve this..

Hi,

I cannot import photos from an SD on a Pixelbook.

SD Card reader plugged into USB C port.  No Files show in the import screen.

Suggestions?

-p

about to cancel my subscription because of this issue

Hi Samuel,

May I know what is the version of the Lightroom Android are you using. Also what device are you using.?

We have few of the devices mentioned above, on which the users are facing the issue, let us investigate this issue and we will update these space with our findings.

Thanks

Deepak

Seems to confirm the issue here:

https://www.lightroomforums.net/threads/how-to-import-pictues-from-sd-cart-into-lr-mobile.31054/

And I think this is the correct feature request that you can vote for:

Lightroom mobile (android): Import from external SD card directly | Photoshop Family Customer Community

I have Lightroom CC on my chromebook and I want to use either the camera SD card or a USB port on the camera to import to LightRoom CC.  LR CC doesn't see either external device.

I INSTALLED LIGHTROOM ON MY SAMSUNG GALAXY 5.1.1 SND IT FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THE SD CARD THAT CONTAINS ALL MY PHOTO LIBRARY DESPITE ANYTHING I DO. THERE IS NOT A SETTING THAT FUNCTIONS WITHIN LIGHTROOM. FRANKLY I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED FOR THE LEAST OPTIONS, PREFERENCES,  CONTROLS TO CUSTOM OR EVEN GET IT TO FUNCTION. I WENT TO EXCESS TO DELETE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT LIGHTROOM WOULD BE THE BEST APP TO IMPORT AND SORT MY LIBRARY AND IT IS NOW HAVING TO BE UNINSTALLED AND I MUST CONTINUE SEARCHING AN APP WITH GALLERY FOCUS. WHAT IS WITH THIS SSKIMMPY APP LIGHTROOM EVERYONE AT ADOOBE. YOU STRUCKOUT WITH ME. NOT ONLY FAILED TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM AS YET.